In the Moment

Islands of trees surrounded by a sheet of ice. I'm dodging yellow jackets on 2/11/2009. How? If it were not 63 degrees today, how could they sustain life? Nature is resilient! It's warm and spring-like but the thaw is not near quite yet. Big geese calling upon each other. Leaves scattering and shuffling like the sounds of peanut shells on a hardwood floor. I can remember his screams. Screams that pierced the whole block on the way to the park. He was probably 6 or 7 years of age and he was resisting his mother and crying. The boy was outside a barbershop and did not appear to need a hair cut. It sounded as though he was screaming for his last breath of life. It kind of freaked me out, as this child's bellow carried on all the way up the block.

A collection of stalks monopolizes most of the shoreline. Grandmother and child strolling by singing nursery rhymes together. The sounds of out of tune squawking geese fills the air and its calming. Scavengers scour the middle of the frozen lake. So captivatingly quiet! These people enter and feed bread to the seagulls. A hawk just swooped in , and is now stalking seagulls and pidgeons. It (the hawk) is very still with its neck cocked to the right and focusing on every move on the ground. It sits diligently and patiently almost like a sniper. After moments in the tree in front of me, it leaps and swoops a bit down the park toward another tree in which to perch! Non-stop chatter on the bench next to me, is chasing me away. What a glorious day! Sun-filled air and the masses are out. A nice spectacle, for which nature, bestows upon us all. Every guest in the park must have felt something about this day.

It's these types of days that keep us grounded. No matter what goes on in our lives, it's these quiet moments that can keep us in the here and now. Since, all we have is this moment, we should relish every second of it. It can be taken away from us with the blink of an eye. Being in this moment, and of this moment, is really all we have. We cannot truly realize any other thing but the present. And, the fret for this, and the fret for that, seizes! We are where we are supposed to be. Or we would not be? I guess we should not question our current disposition. It's this moment and we ended up in this moment for some reason. Stop the combative behavior and embrace it!