Peabody Park, Appleton, Wisconsin, watercolor on paper by Michael Hooper
Time is no friend, she does not console, she offers no pathos,
she is a machine, accurately ticking away the days,
she will take you to your grave,
yet she is our most valuable resource, more valuable than gold,
we must love her and cherish her, and be devoted to her;
she is the mistress that will not love us back, yet leaves us wanting more.
Time travels at top speed in the years, but like a turtle in the minutes and hours of the day.
Moments are preserved as time-stopping pictures, for memory, for edification, for hope, for desire, for nostalgia, for beauty, for sadness, despair and eternal life.
-Michael Hooper, 9.27.2023
