This seems to be the season for pie charts.

Asset allocations? Here’s a pie chart.

Nutritional analysis? Here’s another.

Life planning exercise? You guessed it.

Dear ones, it’s true that our budgets might benefit from this kind of view, and our schedules might be enhanced by careful planning.

But the substance our lives is not meant to be chopped up and rearranged into an ever-elusive optimized solution.

Unlike a pie, the very best parts of life are not finite.

Wonder is not a pie.

Imagination is not a pie.

Love is not a pie.

Friends, let’s plan the things that need planning, and allocate the things that need allocating.

And then let’s revel in life’s unbounded delights.