I’m all for living in the moment, enjoying, savoring and fully experiencing the now. Such intense focus, however, doesn’t leave much time or energy for remembering the past. So what? Some may say that time spent reminscing is time wasted, but we are the sum of our experiences and they ought not to be forgotten. Often in the remembering, or re-remembering, experiences that occured between then and now shed new light and we may gain new perspectives, make new discoveries that will inform our lives today and tomorrow. My goal is to remember and learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow.
Serendipitous with this thought, I just discovered a new online literary publication. Each month LOST publishes nonfiction and fiction pieces about lost people, places and things, tangible and intangible. In their own words, here is “What LOST Strives To Do:”
“As we go through our daily lives, we live largely in the now and in the future. But we stand on a past that still surrounds us in the form of whispers: whispers of old buildings, old objects, old lives. Whispers that, every day, go lost.
“LOST Magazine is all about reclaiming those things that the world has passed by, that may or may not still be whispering around us.
“Many topics on which LOST seeks to publish are bittersweet; all are worth remembering, and many are worth celebrating. LOST is a magazine for people who think about lost landscapes, lost albums, lost letters, lost loves, lost elections, lost cultures, lost faith, and lost time. LOST is a magazine for readers who care for how much life exists in what’s left and left behind.”
To which I’d like to add the words of Charlie Parker: “If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.”