Using Time Wisely Has Different Meanings

I guess time just makes fools of us all. — Father John Misty  It is no longer possible for me to deny that there is far more in the rearview mirror than ahead in the windshield. I am determined to spend time wisely. This might be an exercise fraught with failure, as Father John Misty (Joshua Michael Tillman) notes in his Dylanesque song, which you can listen to here. That song, which I love, strikes me as a version of the Yiddish expression: Der Mensch Tracht, Un Gott Lacht, or Man Plans and God Laughs. When I was younger, rarely did time go by unplanned. I was a project guy, who spent...

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