Into the future

Deacon explained to us that his teacher could read palms and that she looked at his lifeline and told him he would live to be 90 years old. We asked him how much longer he would be alive and he did the math and exclaimed, "80 years!" The look of exhilaration left his face and I thought for a moment that maybe he was focusing on death. I braced myself for a tough question and then he sighed, "and I thought this week was long."

Yes, my son. It seems that way today and then one day you wonder where the time went.