Mental Maps Of Time

What did we lose when we got everything?

My mother sometimes mentions this old Italian proverb she learned growing up: “Hunger is the best sauce.” My dad and I poke fun at her over it; that it embodies a whole poor-Catholic mindset of embracing suffering, viewing pleasure with skepticism, not letting yourself have quite enough, etc. You know, if I starve myself, this mediocre food will taste a…