More from Kim Allen

Let me not revive the past, or on the future build my hopes, for the past has been left behind and the future has not been reached. Instead let me see with insight each presently arisen state. Let me know that and be sure of it -- invincibly, unshakably. So the past has been left behind and the future has not been reached. There's just this moment -- the moment when we hear what's going on in our heart. We can respond to people around us in a way that's kind, clear, wise, peaceful, gentle. And maybe if we do so we'll hear this voice of the hermit thrush on these lovely spring days that we're enjoying.