“There Is No Present Like The Time”

I was at a Bat Mitzvah this past Saturday and the presiding rabbi gave a sermon on the gift of time. He had seen an ad for a famous jewelry company that depicted a graduate in cap and gown, with a new watch on her arm. The caption was, “There Is No Present Like The Time”, which of course, is a twist on the old idiom, “There Is No Time Like The Present” to show that the watch was the gift of time. But the watch is also a metaphor for the larger definition of time. I wish I had the sermon to place here for you to read as the rabbi beautifully wove the two phrases together to create a talk on how time is the most valuable thing we can give anyone we love and the sooner and more frequently we give that gift, the better for all involved.

That theme, of time and the value of taking the time now, has shown up a lot in my work the past few weeks with several of my clients. One project I completed recently was a posthumous piece for the American Associates Ben-Gurion University on Sandy Breslauer, a woman who contributed so much to the organization and to children-in-need through her work as a clown and a volunteer with AABGU. I worked closely with her husband Steve, who provided much of the input for the video. I know he wishes he had more time with her.

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