A baseball in a box isn’t much good for playing the game, but it can offer something as good, or better – the memory of an extraordinary experience as a player or a fan, a chance to hold a great game or great players in the palm of your hand.
What do you cherish because of the memories you associate with it?
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
― Tennessee Williams
If memory preserves this present moment, how will it feel to return to this point in your life?
If you don’t speak Cherokee, the language at the top of this sign is probably baffling, maybe even not recognizable as language at all. It’s all too easy, when we don’t understand, to assume that the other person isn’t making sense. But when someone else’s words confuse us, it might be time to pay closer attention, to glean what sense we can rather than simply stepping away.
Who do you take the time to stay in conversation with, even when it is difficult or confusing?
Sometimes moving forward means a hard climb toward a destination that we can barely make out, knowing that destination is only the place where we catch the train towards the next stop on our journey.
When the journey feels long and confusing, what helps you to get up and onto that first step?
The Mexican holiday of El día de los muertos honors the connection between the dead and the living, and the ways in which those who have gone continue to walk with us.
What do you do to celebrate those who have gone before?
