Be here, now.
When my children were small, perhaps two and six, I posted on a local email list that I was in search of second-hand wooden toys for my kids. A local man, maybe 20 years my senior, responded and invited me to stop by for some things he had set aside.
Standing in his driveway a few blocks from my home, he handed me a box containing a wooden catapult and a few other 15 or 20 year-old treasures. I thanked him, and he nodded, then looked me straight in the eyes and said, "If I can give you one piece of advice in life it's this: play with your kids. Get down on the ground, push them in the swing, run around in the yard. Because one minute you're down on the floor, roaring like a dinosaur, and the next minute they're grown and gone. And it happens in an instant. So just be sure you enjoy them."
