Is your memory slipping? Mine is. The bad news is, my sweetheart’s memory is slipping down the same slope as mine. That’s not good news. For 59 years, we’ve covered for one another. Now we need someone else with a blanket and a diary… the blanket to cover our faux pas – and a diary to go back and retrieve the lost information!
I told you about the blue suitcase and our dual denial, right? http://www.janbeek.blog/embrace-laughter
Do you recall … neither of us remembering the actual color, size, and details of our luggage? Did you laugh with us? Well now, it is a situation where BOTH of us forgot about receiving something a year ago… denying it, causing someone else a lot of frustration, and needing a huge dose of forgiveness for the trouble we caused.
Ah, the mind is a sad thing to lose!!
Now is what we have
Tomorrow isn’t here yet
Sift through sands of time
Yesterday is past
Remembering helps us learn
Embrace the Present
and go back to retrieve what we want to remember!
Check out the expansion of that idea of living in the moment at this previous blog: http://janbeek.blog/2020/11/16/one-day-at-a-time
Haibun (俳文, literally, haikai writings) is a prosimetric literary form originating in Japan, combining prose and haiku. The range of haibun is broad and frequently includes autobiography, diary, essay, prose poem,[1] short story and travel journal.
In the Haibun above, I addressed the short story and the diary idea in my prose – and then added a two-part Haiku to the story. Thanks for the inspiration from Dwight Roth who often contributes Haibun to d’versepoetry.com … and does it so well. Check out today’s post from Roth Poetry:
Being Alive
I’m glad you shared today with me.
I need a haircut!
Thanks for visiting JanBeek
See ya tomorrow (God willing).
Embrace the Present
Comments on: "Embrace the Present" (8)
Age does that to all of us… forgetting what we thought we would always remember. Your haiku say it well. We cant live in the past or the future…. but only in this present moment…. this present breath! Well done Jan.
Dwight
Thank you. <3
The present moment is all we have and we should embrace that life is in the now.
I find the blog is a great memory aid. Provided I can find the relevant key word to access the right post 🙂
It’s a challenge, isn’t it? I have started keeping a daily list of my blog topics in my journal. Helps to retrieve a subject when I want it… and helps me keep from repeating myself.
🙂
Thanks for sharing some delightful poetry. I am sipping some afternoon tea and just enjoying a few quiet moments with some of my favorite bloggers.
Thank you so much, {{{Richard}}}… I appreciate the honor of being in your company on this beautiful sunshiny-sippin’-tea- day ! <3