time casts no shadows, unless, of course, it does

Hidden under the cap of this wooden device is the key to time. It is a metronome. It is time. Like a clock, except less presumptuous. Simpler is usually truer. I saw this metronome in my wife's parent's home before we were married. Now we are married and it is in our home. I remember, years ago, sitting at their piano looking up at that metronome thinking, "I wonder if I could steal that?" And now, with hindsight, I am pretty sure they were looking at me wondering, "Is he going to try to steal our metronome?" Who's laughing now?