Postfight, I would be more present for my friends and they could be more present for me.
One aspect of Anne-Marie Slaughter's recent "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" article in The Atlantic Monthly was her own perceived need to leave a high profile government position to be more present for her teenage sons.
If The Water Diviner proves commercially successful, he will be able to bring back other films to direct in Australia, to "work in the city I want to work in" and, crucially, be more present for his sons, Charlie, 10 and Tennyson, 8.
Still, I would like to have been more present for his arrival and in better shape during his first weeks, when just rolling over or sitting up hurt, and I worry about the risk for serious complications — uterine rupture, hysterectomy, endometriosis — I now face in any future pregnancies.
We can be more present for our child rather than being thrown back into our past on an emotional level.
Instead, I gained a deeper understanding of the brevity of life and how to be more present for every second of it.
We do the difficult work of focusing on ourselves, so that we can then have better relationships and be more present for ourselves and others.
We're thrilled that you've decided to join the thousands of people who will be taking the challenge this week and exploring what it means to be more present for your life, both at work and at home.
This implies that mindfulness meditation may indeed help increase emotional connection to nature, perhaps by helping people be more present for outdoor experiences or by decreasing their sense of separation from nature.
They apologize for not being more present in the moment.
