...secrets...
Wisdom about MINDFULNESS:
(author: Nelson DeMille…book: The Gold Coast, approximately halfway in)
(Nelson writes):
But recent events convinced me that I can neither predict nor plan for the future, so screw the future. When I got there, I’d know what to do; I always know what to do in foreign countries. Why not the future? The past was another story. You couldn’t change it, but you could break away from it and leave it and the people in it behind. My objective, I suppose, was to float in a never-ending present, like the captain of the Paumanok, dealing with the moment’s realities, aware but not concerned about where I’ve been and charting a general course forward, subject to quick changes depending on winds, tides, and whatever I could see on the immediate horizon. (BOOM…drop the microphone!)
As I was getting ready to leave the office, my phone rang and my secretary, Anne, came into my office instead of buzzing me. “Mr. Sutter, I know you said no calls, but it is your father.”