All of your life can’t happen now, believe me take your time.
When pace picks up live in the ride, be there for thrills sublime.
Practice Present Patience & it will signal when storms pass.
Step off the wave & breath…center both soul & body’s mass.
Knowing there’ll be ups & downs may temper your momentum.
Keep an even keel & log each moment to your “Life Sum”.
All horizons become “here” & always all to soon.
Clock heaven’s courses of the stars, then the sun & moon.
Save the scribbles of your life on scraps safely kept in jars.
One day you may shatter them for the pages of memoirs.
If you don’t & leave the jars behind, life may nudge your heir…
Someone who will reach inside for the wisdom you left there.
Either way, you took time to savor flavor in your life…
& either way you’ll leave behind a map of joys & strife.
L.B.Stowe 