Halfway, Forever

That time right before dusk when the strange air swirls around you presents possibilities mysterious, romantic, dark, exhilarating, and final. Yet now, only this small gap of time and space matters. Nothing else because there is only this, this. This moment, it exists and it is dying. You know it and you don’t care. Throw your arms high and wide and laugh! You exist, solidly, in this instant, and that is something to revel in.

It is so hard to force only now to matter, and by that, embrace the impending future rather than fight it and fear it. This is the trial of living your limited present, rather than scenes of what probably will not come to pass. The current moment is ever dying, always dusky, so spin around and feel it while you can. In some places, sometimes, this can be fleetingly easy.

Halfway up Mount Kenya the clouds unconcernedly drift over the darkening, scrubby flowers.