Behind and Ahead

One month later, I am still enjoying beautiful memories of my trip to Sedona.  Although Arizona was never on my "Places to Go" list until this year, I am already looking forward to going there again someday.

While on my Sedona trip, I watched very little television.  When I did watch, I thought it interesting that the programming appeared to be an hour off.  For example, something I would usually watch from 9:00-10:00 was aired from
8:00-9:00. 

"Their programs must be an hour earlier like in some states back East," I thought.  It didn't make a lot of sense to me because everything else in Arizona seemed to be on Pacific time, just like at home in Oregon.

As I was preparing to change my clocks tonight and "fall behind" an hour, I realized that Arizona does not observe daylight savings time.  Did that have something to do with the difference?  If I went back to Sedona today, would my 9:00 program actually be on at 9:00?

I've never been a big fan of daylight savings time.  I could never quite see how we were saving daylight.  But, the changing of the clocks did make me think about the fact that the practices of one place are not always the same as the practices of another place. 

While I was judging the time of Arizona's television broadcasting as being "off," Arizona was operating on the same time it always did the year around.  It was Oregon - along with most of the other states - who was"springing ahead" and "falling behind." 

So, who is ahead and who is behind?  Who is on or off?  Maybe it's just that we are where we are, and it's being in the now - my now - that counts.