I have lost a day …

Tears are streaming down her little face, she is furious and full of regret. She kicks and screams and the tears keep rolling.

What is the matter honey? I ask my daughter.

She looks at me bewildered, like I should know, like I should be automatically in tune with her current plight. She looks at me with total seriousness and not a little blame and she says:

I lost a whole day! Now it is to late, it is gone, I can never do what I wanted to do today, because the day is gone.

I try to suppr...