01 · David Cole
A man who notices.
A quietly observant engineer, runner, husband, father, and unpublished poet. David has spent his life gathering small pieces of the world in the pages of his notebooks.
The observer · The poet
About the Book
A lifetime is made of little things.
David Cole is an environmental engineer from small-town Iowa. He solves practical problems, pays attention to the natural world, and has written privately in notebooks since 1974. He is also a poet, though almost no one has ever read his work.
As he builds a life with Claire Hartley, the years bring marriage, children, work, joy, uncertainty, and change. All the while, David keeps noticing the details that might otherwise slip away: a conversation, a leaf, a quiet afternoon, the words someone almost didn't say.
Time Enough is a work of fiction about the passing of time, the people who fill it, and the question that grows more important with every year: what, in the end, makes a life?