Ideal Moment - In Practice, At Present

I, like a lot of people, find it difficult to live in the here and now. There are always plans, wishes, hopes for the future. It is too easy to see what is lacking now... Kids are a mixed blessing, as on the one hand, they help you focus on the current moment (that angellic giggle), but also make you wish time would fly (that beautiful moment when they are all asleep). Here is an ode to this current moment: My youngest is napping, the rest of the family on an outing. I have a panorama view of a beautiful lake (Brandenburg's, German's state around Berlin, largest - the Scharmützelsee). I just finished Herta Müller's Atemschaukel (she won the nobel prize two or so years back, this is the second of her books that I read, both were about oppression of the German-speaking minority in Roumania, heavy but very poetic). I am tuned into classic radio. Peace (around and of mind) and a great deal of gratitude for this moment, here and now.