Measured Time has Immeasurable Space

The only way I can swim daily is to say...just do one lap....
and make it be the same time each day...
same is true for nearly everything I do...
schedule makes space

I knew, from having watched my father hack down the incredible amount of work he accomplished day by day and year by year, how supportive a routine is, how the spirit moves around freely in it as it does in a plain New England church. Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time. The apparently measured time has immeasurable space within it, and in this it resembles music.
- May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep