Staying Present

It has been rightly said that the only moment we have is the present moment. The past is gone and cannot be changed. The future has not yet arrived and so is beyond our reach. It seems so obvious, so simple, yet how much time do we spend fixating on the past or dreaming of…

Control the future?

Tennis player Naomi Osaka currently appears in a television commercial for Citizen watches in which she says, "I can control my future." No, Naomi, you can't. None of us can, an we have a collection of lovely (and sometimes trite) pieces of folk wisdom and spiritual teachings to remind us that we can't. Even wearing…