Take Back Your Time Day - October 24 - exactly 9 weeks before New Year, 9 weeks being the average extra amount of time Americans work each year compared to Europeans. 70 years since the bill for a 30 hour week was introduced in Congress.
TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY
Use some of your precious time to check out this initiative and see how you can promote awareness about this issue - as reported in HopeDance magazine, Americans today work on average longer than medieval peasants.
NEWSLETTER -- JULY, 2003
"A life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking brings us close to the actual existing world and its wholeness."
-- Gary Snyder, poet
"It was the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world."
-- John Cheever
Thanks to Carol Holst at Seeds of Simplicity for our new Time Day slogan:
TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY...
because time is more than money.
www.simpleliving.net/timeday/news-current.asp