Kiowa Trail (1964)
“No doubt a part of it was natural to me, but it was also conditioned in me by Jim Sotherton.
He lived in such a way, and he was forever commenting to me on how few people actually livednow. Most people, he said, exist in an emptiness between memory and anticipation, but never livein the moment.
Whatever natural tendency I may have had toward living in the moment was developed and increased by Sotherton's comments, and by his own awareness.
Now when I stepped from the door of the saloon into the... bright sunlight, I stood for a moment to let my eyes become accustomed to the change of light. As I stood there on the weathered boardwalk, I looked down at the gray boards, at the cracks, the slivers, the places where some idle hand had whittled with a knife, and I was aware of the warm sun and the silence, of water dripping from the water tank used by the railroad into a trough used by passing riders. And then I looked up and walked to the end of the porch with Mason.
The air was startlingly clear.MoreLess
He lived in such a way, and he was forever commenting to me on how few people actually livednow. Most people, he said, exist in an emptiness between memory and anticipation, but never livein the moment.
Whatever natural tendency I may have had toward living in the moment was developed and increased by Sotherton's comments, and by his own awareness.
Now when I stepped from the door of the saloon into the... bright sunlight, I stood for a moment to let my eyes become accustomed to the change of light. As I stood there on the weathered boardwalk, I looked down at the gray boards, at the cracks, the slivers, the places where some idle hand had whittled with a knife, and I was aware of the warm sun and the silence, of water dripping from the water tank used by the railroad into a trough used by passing riders. And then I looked up and walked to the end of the porch with Mason.
The air was startlingly clear.MoreLess
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