This Moment...

For our entire life, birth to death, we only get a moment. This one right now. That's it. Everything else is memory or a wish. So when Hannah speaks to me of her yoga practice and the need to do things with intent, to be in the moment, that resonates. When Carla mentions Carl Jung's appeal for mindfulness, we're all speaking the same language. If we waste this moment by not being in it, maybe thinking of our “to do” list or what's for dinner, we can never get it back It's as if we were never there. That's our life we're letting slip by. Did we pick up that faint scent of wood smoke in the air or hear the Geese flying in their chevron overhead? Our children grow a half a foot, seemingly overnight. Was I there? Did I even see it? Or was I thinking about work or the bills, or maybe wasting time worrying about something that may never happen?

Be mindful, move forward with intent, pay attention. Don't blink.