Between-Time Settles in at Put-in-Bay

Kaleidoscope, by Berni Steinbach

The Roman king Numa Pompilius short-changed our month of February because of a superstitious belief that even numbers were unlucky.  The removal of days from our calendar, similar to the artificial movement of the hour for Daylight Savings Time, remains a lesser issue amidst the world-scenario we experience today.  This is why it is important to take notice of between-time as March moves us closer to spring and summer jubilation.

Between-time is a conscious recognition of transition without action; a stopwatch interval measurement applies in racing when a team desires to know performance during a specific place on the course.  For our purpose, interval creates awareness of the island environment between the high-energy of ice-fishing and the molten-lava speed of time as we await first-ferry.

Rockwell Kent (American painter, print-maker, philosopher) writes in his 1919 Alaska Journal, “There are the times in life–when nothing happens–but in quietness the soul expands.”  That is between-time!  Though the scenes are not necessarily picturesque, the start of March at Put-in-Bay signals the coming awakening, and it offers a reminder to set the dial to “change.”