“You never grow old at the table,” the Tuscans say. And the more I think about this, the more I think it’s true. As we get older, many of us lose our childlike sense of wonder. Everyday life becomes mundane. You find a routine that works and you stick to it. It offers comfort and security—to expect the expected. But remember what it felt like when you took the training wheels off your bike for the first time? The thrill of the wind around you, tempting you to become one with

Sometimes we just need to laugh.

It was the summer of 1997, an eight year-old was flipping through the channels and stumbled on a cartoon.