One more contribution to Bambi’s post, although he wrote it as a comment to my “Dear God: On Regaining Innocence” was Frank’s thought on all that time that went by before you learned how to play your cards — I mean, what happens to all the dysfunctional Christmases of past? Is that all time wasted? Where do those years go? I liked his answer:

In Joel there is a place where God says, “I will restore unto you the years the locust hath consumed.” I know that was addressed to Israel but I think the applicability is universal. We get back those lost moments. No, the calendar isn’t reset or clock turned back. But when we get our ‘act’ together we get to cram more time into each moment. We get a bigger bang for our buck. Now, this theo-psycho moment wasn’t approved by the legal dept. or sanctioned by the marketing gurus but it makes sense to me.