CHAPTER ELEVEN
Your Most Precious
Commodity
Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well
arranged mind.
Sir Isaac Pitman
"You know what's funny about life?" Julian asked me.
"Tell me."
"By the time most people figure out what they really want and
how to go about attaining it, it's usually too late. That saying, 'If
youth only knew, if age only could," is so true.
"Is that what the stopwatch in Yogi Raman's fable is all about?"
"Yes. The naked nine-foot-tall, nine-hundred-pound sumo
wrestler with the pink wire cable covering his private parts slips on
a shiny gold stopwatch that someone has left in the beautiful
garden," Julian reminded me.
"How could I forget," I replied, breaking into a grin.
By now I had realized that Yogi Raman's mystical fable was