It’s amazing to think that the last time I posted was more than six years ago. Was this really the last time that I truly invested in myself? Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure I’ve been busy helping others, staying busy, doing things, you know living, working… but not taking time to reflect. What’s important? What matters? Why haven’t I updated my web site, in six plus years?

Rather than trying to sort out all of the dim faded days of years past, what if I start with more recent history?

If I rewind to March 7, 2020, almost nearly four months ago in what feels like approximately a 75-year timespan, six years to the day after my last blogpost, I was in line, at a grocery store, seeing scores of customers with a panicked uneasy look at the massive food checkout lines during the day. This was days before my state, and my country declared a national emergency. My city of San Francisco was on it. It knew what was coming. But I didn’t. Really none of us did.

And yet, here we are. Now. Now arrives all of the time. In all its newness, all its glory, strangely like clockwork, with eerie predictability. Now arrives.

Rather than live in regret or rumination, I can reflect and choose to say, “how about the present?” As the old adage goes, there’s no time like it. As the improviser’s wisdom would agree whole-heartedly, now is all that we ever have. Now is everything.

Let’s pick things up right where we left off, and imagine it’s the exact timing that was needed.

When are you going to start that next big project? Sit and reflect and journal? Call your family? Slow down? Take a risk? That thing that you’ve been procrastinating, punting on, perpetually pencilling in 0r putting down the priority placement of an imaginary To-Do list that seems more of a pipe dream?

I offer you a gift. There’s no time, but now.