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Fri, 02 Jan 2004

Time's directions

Time has at least three directions: past, present and future. Although we cannot change past events we can change our present reactions to them. We can change the stories we tell ourselves so that instead of being lost victims we are victorious survivors. Or instead of being grandiose heros we become humble humanists.

These gracious perspectives then inform our present, helping us to live our present lives gracefully. Each step taken today can be confident and tender, graceful and gracious, bold and caring. In other words, connected to life.

Just as we can change our relationship with the past we can have a plan for the future which doesn't preclude the present. Perhaps the most important part of the plan should be our willingness to throw it away and start again from the present. To be open for surprise, to be in the game.

We do well, living in our times, to remember Kerouac's advice: "Don't forget your tenderness."

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