Nothing Belongs to Us, Except Time

Practical advice for life from a 17th-century self-help book

Zul Bal
ILLUMINATION-Curated
4 min readDec 12, 2020

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Photo by Aliis Sinisalu on Unsplash

A little green book sat on our bookshelf gathering dust for who knows how long. Neither I nor my husband has read it or remember how it made its way to our home. Today I finally picked it up to see what it’s about.

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Zul Bal
ILLUMINATION-Curated

I write to collect, capture, and curate ordinary beautiful ideas.