In Search of Yesterdays… If there should be an appeal for volunteers to search for innocence lost, misplaced or forfeited in recent decades, sign me up. The downward spiral has been gradual, unlike Dorothy’s sudden realization--upon her arrival at Oz’s Emerald City--that she and her friends weren’t in Kansas anymore. Mired in a culture where too much information bombards daily, we’re “running out of respites,” even during holidays.