We’ve asked Karyn Schwartz, owner of the Sugarpill apothecary on E Pine, to contribute to CHS about health and Hill living on a semi-regular basis. If you’re an expert and want to share with the community in a recurring CHS column, we’d like to hear from you.

I love that there are still churches here that ring the time of day, on the hour, with their bells. Whenever I hear them, I find myself longing for the time before digital anything existed. A time when TIME was still analogue, and there was mystery about the everyday ordinary details of life, like what your friends are doing when you’re not with them, or whether or not someone is thinking about you in exactly this moment.

We used to look at the sky to know what time it was. We used to look at the sky just to wonder. We used to sit still and not feel like we were wasting time. We used to listen to records from beginning to end. We used to write letters and postcards by hand and address, stamp and send them, and someone would receive that thought days or even weeks later, and it would interrupt a different moment in time than the exact one when the thought occurred, and a response would be considered, lingered over, signed, sealed. Continue reading →