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John de Graaf is the award-winning documentary film maker. Some of his great films which we have shown in SLO County include Affluenza, Escape from Affluenza and Beyond Organic. This book is an anthology that reads like a previous voluntary simplicity manifesto but this time it focuses on Time, that most precious commodity in which we live our lives and make decisions. The anthology includes some of the most articulate people on the planet about this subject. We have David Korten, Anna Lappe, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Cecile Andrews, Carol Olstrom, Juliet Schor, Paul Loeb, Jonathan Rowe and Vicki Robin, to mention a few.
And the book is the official handbook of the national movement of TBYT (Take Back Your Time) Day, which was October 24th. Did you hear much about it? Did you read an article about it? We published an article and no one noticed. I put out a notice to help create an event to 200 local activists and only one responded and then later rescinded because he didn't have enough time for it. We even published cartoons about it in HopeDance, and nada. Some of the graphics and cartoons are in this book, created by a graphics classroom that took TBYT as a class project. I think this has the ingredients for a mass movement because time appears to be a major stressful element in people's lives. We don't have enough time for our kids, to do what we want, to be with loved ones, to work at what we want to work at, to make love. It appears to be a growing force of pressure for many of us and many of us are saying no to it and trying to figure out what to do. Some will say that time does not change at all. It stays constant and it's our relationship to it that can alter. I know that when I'm having fun, time seems to stand still and when I'm bored time seems to stretch endlessly · but it's the general sociopolitical sense of time and our suffering around it that's at issue here · and John de Graaf has taken his precious time to start a movement · and already there are solutions. And, even though it's not in the book, there is even a congressional bill that will alter somehow the time constraints that we as families are encountering. Go to their official website to learn more about it. www.timeday.org. If you wish to organize a local event, go to the website and read the book and learn how to put one on.
--Bob Banner
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