I like to read The Happiness Project where Gretchen records her investigations into the nature of happiness, quotes, studies, tips and information. Recently she has made a short internet film The Years are Short which really struck a chord with me.
We are so busy rushing through life gathering school bags, making pack lunches, shopping, cooking, swimming lessons, Brownies, homework, reading, spellings......that it's sometimes good to pause and grasp the moment. It seems only a moment since my children were babies, just a year or two since I was a newly wed and not long since I was at school myself. Where have all the minutes and moments gone? Washed away on the tide of life.
Today my Mum would have been 65 had she not died far too early. Some memories are like photos in my mind, others there but somehow just out of reach .So many moments not lived and too many rushed through, enjoyed but not really remembered as the days are long and the years,sadly, too short.
image from Gardenstuff