Time and (im)patience: Accepting incremental progress as a landowner

“Summertime and the living is easy.”

Or is it? So much to do, so little …

I’ve been thinking a lot about time lately: there’s never enough of it; it flies by too quickly; it drags interminably; the present moment is precious ­– but almost impossible to savor fully before it dissolves and slips into the past.

It’s like time – or at least our sense of it – is elastic. We’ve all experienced this,…