"You have to live in the now, and you make your now."
-- Suzanne Farrell, as quoted in The Washington Post, October 5, 2008
A profound observation, really. And the quotation has two provocative and evocative elements: the part before the comma and the part after the comma.
It reminds me of someone I knew 20+ years ago in New Jersey. He was a member of a 12 Step program. He would say, "The now. N.O.W. There's no other way." It took me in my denseness a while to get it.
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