Present moment of a thirsty towel.

Their need was evident, but I didn't pay attention.

My cats had eaten less than two hours ago, so they wouldn't have been crowding around me like this, as if they needed to be fed. Something was wrong but I wasn't paying attention. I wasn't "listening."

My listening skills used to be much better, and noticing that someone needed to be listened to. That's why I need to improve and keep to my schedule of mindfulness meditation. It has helped enormously. If I had been mindful, if I was living in the present moment, I would have been curious about what Easter, Dude and Ladybug wanted me to do. Needed me to do.

I had noticed the towel had fallen from their shelf. Sometimes cats move things around, you know. That's normal. But I hadn't noticed it landed right on their water bowl. And that it absorbed the entire contents of the bowl. Now that I cleaned and refilled their waterbowl, they're okay now that they've slurped up their fill with urgency.

Sorry guys!

Living in the present moment is vital, because life happens only in the here and now. The past has expired, the future isn't yet real, I always and only exist here, where I am, never anywhere else. Not ever. Here in this place, now in this time. That's where you are, that's where I am.

Be alive.