What It Is: Post-dumpage, you're going to find yourself with a lot of time—time that's often spent getting misty over the past and brooding over what went wrong.
Besides, many of the joys and sorrows of childhood have lost their poignancy; and many incidents of vital importance in my early education have been forgotten in the excitement of great discoveries.
Of course after so many years have " floated" by, the nostalgia might have left the sender a little " glassy eyed" but it shows how time is a bridge between past and present and a " River Runs Through It" .