We listen to the past, we yearn for a future, such as it is, but that it be an answer to the questions of the present, we do what is within our reach, irrational or not, so that the actions of time are coherent and consistent with our most hidden desires…. we grow particle to particle that way. The ephemeral is not what goes away, but what we let slip away...many times...you just have to listen to what our own self tells us