The Present

The past is prologue - immutable.  We can know it fully—or as fully as our filters of memory and ego allow—but can change nothing.  We cannot return – not even to cross an uncrossed t, nor dot a forgotten i.  We may, in memory, relive our joys or consider our regrets, but only as reference.

The future is ours to influence and shape – but not to fully control.  The outcome—subject to myriad other factors—is as protean as next year’s weather forecast.

Confluence - East and West Forks Multnomah Creek

It is the present—the ephemeral, yet omnipresent confluence of past and future—that we inhabit.  It is the seam where we draw together the lessons from our past with our hopes and aspirations the future and weave the fabric of our lives.