I've been feeling really sentimental these days. This winter, I spent a lot of time thinking about my loved ones who lived far away. I thought about other relatives who passed away and realize how very much I miss them. Mom and Dad are gone so I can't give them a hug. My children and grandchildren live far from California so I cannot look at their beautiful faces every day or talk to them about daily life. I wish I could hug them every day.

Don't take the people in your life for granted. Look at the person sitting next to you or in the same room with you. Think about how much you would miss them if they were gone from this earth. Imagine your life without that person in it physically. It is a place of no return. Don't wait. Hug someone that you love today, and hug them every day of your life for as long as they are with you.

The Midnight Writer

Have you ever thought about the possibility that this could be your last day on earth? What would you do with the day if you knew it was the last one? All the earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoe, volcanoes, blizzards and solar flares has me thinking about the possibility long and hard. I wake up every day with a newly found gratitude for being alive. I thank God when I look out the window of my camper van and see the ground surrounding me still in tact. The movie 2012 doesn't seem so far fetched to me when I listen to the daily news.

It is only possible to live one moment at a time. Life is the accumulation of fleeting seconds that pass so quickly that they are gone before you can count the seconds out loud. We move through life on some kind of evolving wheel that swiftly carries us across some invisible space and travels billions of miles. But all we know is the exact moment when the breath is inhaled or exhaled. Every thing else becomes just a memory that has an eternal life span and times hoped for in some distant never-existing future. We can't get to the future because we live in the moment, the ever-fluctuating now.

This is a profound truth that should rock you to the very deepest center of your soul. What will you do with your moment in time?