Life moves on without looking back. We, however, do not. Our lives are sometimes consumed with life in the rearview mirror. How do we reclaim what we can see in there? How do we rebuild what seems lost?
Why do we want to? To escape to the past means we can escape from the future or the present. Pour a cup of hot tea and settle into your favorite chair. Why tea, you ask, why not alcohol or soda or water? Tea warms you and soothes the ragged edges of your day without overwhelming either your senses or your brain as other choices can. So, pour the tea and sit. Hold the cup with both hands, close to your face. Allow the steam to warm your face, breath deep the aroma rising from the cup. At first the smell is one smell, indecipherable. Then you begin to divide it into other familiar strains. What is that, orange, or citrus? What does that remind you of?
Consider your day beginning with 1 minute ago, working backwards to the beginning when the sun first caught your eye. Allow your mind to continue its travel backwards to as many days as you wish. Where does it take you? What is happening "there" when you arrive, stepping back into a moment in life that you witnessed once before. What was so important about that moment that it has drawn you back to visit again?
