We can’t make more time, but we certainly can make more of our time. In this InCommon with Mike Leonard story, Mike looks back on his family’s history with home-movie cameras and laments how quickly life seems to go by for us all. Find out why he wants us all to make an effort to capture life’s simple, ordinary moments.
Time Goes By
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