Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.

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In response Jack Pitney pointed out that leadership almost always seems to be in crisis, if only because people usually think times are more dire in the present than they ever were in the past, which is almost never true.

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Some locals are lamenting the loss of its rough-as-guts decor and ambiance, while others are relieved that its bar-room brawls, sticky floors and ever-present aroma of stale beer are things of the past.

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When the mulch on the ground is made of leaves from fall past, pine needles of winter present and ever-so-slight hints of green desperately attempting to push through.

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The great thing about collecting these mini-pots of gold is, even though you should continue to request them of both current and past clients, the ones you get can live on forever in our ever-present cyber-world.

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