Thinking About Today Tomorrow.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010


Thinking About Today Tomorrow.

I thought I would change things up a little today. I will stop thinking of yesterday today. Instead I will think of today tomorrow. Essentially, that will be the same thing as usual but somehow a little different. Today it is in the future. Tomorrow it will just be more of the SOS.

If I was thinking about tomorrow today that too would be uncommon, for me more than a little unusual. It would almost be as if Linda Blair spun her head all the way around. Simply put I would be thinking about the future. The future is always so speculative. I normally prefer the known or previously known when it comes to eras. That way I spend less time contemplating potential errors, a lot like the grasshopper.


Still I would rather contemplate today. Not now… Tomorrow.


I see far too many people too many times too much not in the present. They are off somewhere in the past or future. Usually I am right there with them, spending too much time in the past or the future. Not so much in the future; I usually wait until the future is in the past. Let’s leave the future in the future or to those with DeLoreans. Besides, Lorraine Baines is just not that hot or was not or won’t be.

I will experience today, today. I will then think about it tomorrow. When I think about today tomorrow I think I shall not dwell on missed opportunities. Maybe I will consider what being in the moment was like.

This does leave me with a little dilemma. Not too large a one if I think about it. If I am not thinking about anything special today then I will have that special capacity to experience it; especially if I don’t spend too much time considering what the present moment is like in the present. I will hold off doing that until tomorrow when my present will be my past.

DakotaDawg seems to not spend too much time considering tomorrow today. I think she rarely thinks about yesterday today. Heck, she sometimes doesn’t even consider today, today. She just decides what she wants to do right now. Then unless there is a penalty she remembers from her past or one she fears in her future that she does not want to suffer; she does it. In the present, DakotaDawg is in the present. There but for too much thinking go I.


Right now is quite a different concept than today, tomorrow or yesterday. Similar to them, right now is constantly shifting through time. It is a reflection of nothing else.

It was Clinton that made that crystal clear when he said: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." I had a little trouble wrapping my head around that when he testified... Until the explanation: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true." Shouldn’t it have been what the meaning of are is?

Apparently President Clinton enjoyed being in the present tense especially when he had been in the present with his aide present. He especially also enjoyed being in the present when the present was in the past. He wasn’t or isn’t Slick Willie just for his ability to twist the language. Clinton was also a big fan of recycling. It seemed he recycled some of Ronnie RayGun's nicknames like Teflon Bill and The Great Prevaricator.


My goal today is to just let the present be the present, the past the past and the future the future. I am going to try for the rest of the day to be here where I am and not somewhere I am not. I am also not going to try too much to even consider the present. I am just going to enjoy it.


I must break this principle just once more to consider that I started this thought and blog post yesterday so a lot of it is like this morning’s walk with DakotaDawg. It is now the past.

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." I have to thank our grammarian president for that.

As for me, the rest of today I am going to think about tomorrow. Wait a minute, I mean I am going to be thinking about today tomorrow.


The heck with it; unless there are serious consequences, DakotaDawg and I will just be in the here and now and not think about it.

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour...

© 06.30.2010 steven d philbrick SR+ DakotaDawg


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