At the house, I sat in my grandmother Nan's recliner chair because she's in the hospital. My grandfather Pop and I watched Martin Scorsese's The Departed on a cable TV channel. It's a violent film, filled with betrayal and deception. On a commercial break, Pop said: "Well, it looks like it'll be just you and me eating dinner here." "Yeah, just for a little while," I responded. My grandmother is suffering from a variety of ailments. For decades, she has been plagued by severe

There is a window to joy: in distant memories (going to the pizza parlor with my little league baseball team and playing arcade games); in future imaginings (envisioning an AYP-based meditation center in my hometown where many come to practice); in the present moment (listening to the cars slosh rainwater outside my window as I type these words). Many are confused as to the nature of the Here and Now. The Here and Now encompass Past and Present. There is a Past Now and a Futu