Palo Duro makes me think about the moment

Before leaving today on the scenic route through Caprock, Turkey, and Palo Duro Canyon on our way to Dumas, I read a meditation. It's worth sharing.....

A tiger gave chase to a monk who had been walking peacefully near a cliff and the monk, running as fast as he could, had no choice but to be eaten or leap off the edge of the cliff. He was able as he leaped to grab hold of a vine trailing over the cliff and dangle in midair with the tiger snarling at him overhead and under him a very long fall into a rushing river full of boulders. Then he noticed a mouse gnawing at the vine. He also noticed growing out of a cleft in a rock in front of him a strawberry plant with one ripe berry. He ate it. He said, "This is a very good strawberry."

We are all dangling in mid process between what already happened, which is just a memory, and what might happen, which is just an idea. Now is the only time anything happens. How often do I get caught up in rehearsing for the future which I cannot predict, or ruminating about the past, which I cannot change, all the while not awake to present experience?

It's your life, don't miss it!