And Their Son Came Home...stopwatches and clocks

"And their son came home".  How often have you wanted to turn back time? Or perhaps just stop time?

Wikipedia says the stopwatch has more than one inventor and it dates back to the 1700's. As the story goes the tool was created because King George wanted to know how fast his horses ran around a track. Sounds reasonable as stories go but I think the stopwatch was the product of a person's attempt to stop time from slipping away.

In The Curious Story of Benjamin Button, a heart broken dad builds a great clock to turn back time so sons lost in the war might return home to live. This is a wonderful metaphor for all we have created in an effort to retain what we have or bring back what we've lost. I suppose Aaron's House and Grace House are a stopwatch or backwards running clock. It's 11:26 May 10, 2016 and there's less than 60 minutes of life as it once was remaining in May 10, 2005. Stop or turn back. Don't slip into the future.