Present

I have challenged myself with choosing a one-word or short-phrase "theme" for the year.  I chose "present."  I want to be present and engaged.

"But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at your side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

-- Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech, June 2005

I sometimes forget to remember the days, because they won't last forever.  My children are growing up, and I am growing older.
"It's my life / It's now or never / I ain't gonna live forever / I just want to live while I'm alive."

-- Bon Jovi, "It's My Life"

Sometimes someone else says it better than we can.

Until tomorrow...