Life Is Now

     I was thinking, or trying to remember, some of things I did while growing up in New Jersey. In many ways it seems so long ago it's almost as if it was another person. I think that one of reasons that childhood is so memorable is that when we are very young, we live almost entirely in the moment. We have very little past to influence our present experience. Everything is new, fresh, and the sparkle of the "first time ever." As we get older, we spend a lot of our hours thinking about the past and concerns about the future. In doing so, we miss the present moment and what made days fresh and new when we are young.