The Here and Now
I was asked, by my son, to care for his mother-in-law for a month,
while he and his father-in-law went hunting. I had only met this
couple once, at the wedding, but felt an immediate connection. I treated her as my equal, yet
inside, mourned the wonderful woman this family, other loved ones and
I, were slowly losing. In my short time with her, I learned a
lifetime of love, caring and not sweating the small stuff. The here
and now is what is important. Not the past, not the future, just the
here and now.
—Elaine Harris Thompson