I’ve reached an age when people are likely to experience health scares and unexpected losses of family and close friends. It’s an age when thinking about the future often prompts anxieties seldom suffered in the past, and when the unwanted realization that the longer you live the more you lose is hard to keep at bay.

It’s best now to try hard to live in the moment. Appreciate every kindness. Do your nearest duty. Cherish your loves. “Enjoy every sandwich,” as the late Warren Zevon put it.

It’s easier said than done, though, isn’t it? To live completely in the moment, you have to banish from your mind regrets and worries, those nags from the past and future. And whose mind is ever free of those?

I had a dog named Henry. He was a good boy. We both had our shortcomings but they didn’t bother us much.