You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. —Jan Glidewell (Quoted by Laura Drake,The Sweet Spot)

Hurry into the grocery store,
need three things, a cart’s excess.
Get to the checkout with seven,
juggling to keep them until close
to the conveyor belt.
Why do we think we can hold on?
Why do we need to keep it all with us?
Isn’t it okay to have it where we can find,
to use it to remember what we were like,
what we’ve learned, how blessed we are?
Are’t the mental blessings so much easier
to hold on to than all the things we feel
we must control, must supervise, must own?