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Presenting the Present.

Presenting the Present.

 

The Present is a ‘present’: it’s a gift for you and me.

A chance to manage things ‘that are’ or fashion ‘what will be’.

The Present is now happening: it stays with us, throughout.

A ‘multi-choice’ of routes to take - each paved with trust and doubt.

 

For, when we ‘load our bullets (in the Present) to the gun’,

they’re locked, within the Past, wher...

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