The phrase "alive in the present" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of being fully engaged and aware in the current moment, often in a philosophical or mindfulness context.
Example: "To truly appreciate life, one must learn to be alive in the present and not dwell on the past or worry about the future."
Alternatives: "living in the moment" or "fully present".
A holiday like Thanksgiving is an ideal time to make the past alive in the present.
The historical stuff is nice, but rivalries are kept alive in the present.
In any case, the whole traditional-versus-modern debate remains very much alive in the present.
Traditions have always added to humanity's experiences by making the past come alive in the present.
Why does this image seem so vividly alive in the present though?
The unconscious is timeless, and the past remains very much alive in the present for better or worse.
And "Shuffle Along" reminded us that racism is not in our past but alive in the American present.
Though the play is about getting over the past to live in the present, no one seems very alive.
In a somewhat analogous way, all life forms alive today "arrived" in the present through various evolutionary pathways involving numerous evolutionary mechanisms and influences over a nearly 4,000,000,000-year history but not all were affected equally by the several possible mechanisms and influences.
When I realized there was no longer anything I needed to change, do, or be in order to be happy, an extraordinary amount of thinking fell away, opening up even more space for me to feel my innate well-being -- the simple, ordinary feeling of being alive and well in the present moment.
He wasn't as good a singer as his slightly older contemporary, Harry Lauder (ibid, last week), but his apprenticeship made him a far more subtle and wittier impersonator; Lauder could only impersonate a historical kind of "Scotsman", which was a weirdly clothed and exaggerated version of himself, whereas Fyffe was alive to the present in all its variety.
