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A few years ago \u2013 well, four years ago \u2013 I wrote in this blog a piece about the ever-accelerating passing of time. You could read that\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0if you were so inclined.<\/p>\n The title of that post, “Where’s the Time Go?” was a direct quote overheard from a geezer named Glenn in a cafe. Glenn was lamenting the fact that he was old and unkempt and suffering from unceasing acid reflux.<\/p>\n Since that Christmas Eve morning that phrase, “Where’s the Time Go?” has been one of the many mantras Linda and I restate, nearly daily as we watch the sun race across the sky like a meteor and dive beneath the western hills, only to instantaneously pop up back behind us in the east.<\/p>\n I revisit that idea now just as a way to make sense of the whole year-in-review vid above.<\/p>\n It’s kind of peculiar, in nearly 30 years in the newspaper business this is the first year I wasn’t involved that end-of-year salute that newspapers always do.<\/p>\n So, after being inspired and prompted by my pal Mat Luschek<\/a>, who told me he has been doing a YIR slideshow for several years now,\u00a0I decided to do my own.<\/p>\n Then …<\/p>\n Just tonight I stood in the mirror and observed that I was wearing a dark blue t-shirt with “Press-Telegram SWIM TEAM 2004” emblazoned across the front in swimming-pool-aqua-colored type.<\/p>\n Two thousand four.<\/p>\n George W. Bush<\/a> was still in his first term and was even reelected. The\u00a0Abu Ghraib<\/a>\u00a0story broke. An enormous\u00a0tsunami<\/a>\u00a0killed more than 200,000 people in Asia.\u00a0Ray Charles<\/a>\u00a0died.<\/p>\n Tonight, I’m wearing an eight-year-old t-shirt.<\/p>\n I probably have six drawers that can barely contain the superabundance of t-shirts I own, some of which are significantly older than eight years.<\/p>\n Where does the time go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [iframe http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34454930?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 601 338] A few years ago \u2013 well, four years ago \u2013 I wrote in this blog a piece about the ever-accelerating passing of time. You could read that\u00a0here\u00a0if you were so inclined. The title of that post, … Continue reading