I've spent the last few months in guilty inactivity. I've discovered that the world doesn't seem to need me to improve it.

Until his 70th birthday, Moriah had never been preoccupied with the passing of time or his own mortality. But as he entered his eighth decade, the Book of Ecclesiastes took on new meaning for him.

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