Complacency is an easy place to settle down in.   One stops looking, seeing, and noticing.  Everything becomes status quo.  Maybe even boring.  “When will something good happen?”  “When will I find true happiness?” “I am so bored right now.”   And on.   Who hasn’t wondered these things from time to time?

Early this morning, before the sun came up… I walked up to the entrance of Snow Canyon. It became apparent to me that happiness and contentedness aren’t dependent on something in the future. It is really more a matter of being comfortable in the present. This moment is really the only thing that is happening. Time is a continuum. But the only part that we “have” is the “right now.” The past is over and done with… we can’t alter it. The future hasn’t happened yet… and once it transpires… it will be this very moment in time.

It is beautiful here. Vivid. Unique. Bold & Colorful. I am seeing things I’ve never seen before. Unfortunately, I didn’t see that pile of Roadrunner poop on the trail…. now THAT was a real present!

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
-Leonardo di Vinci