Really Present?

What does it mean to be present.
In communion Jesus says he'll be with us
he took bread and broke it saying take and eat, this is my body given for you.
Take this cup and drink from it this cup is the new testament in my blood she for you.
So Jesus is here with us.
But often times we are "here" for the people we share this planet with everyday.
How many times have I been focussed on my phone or a newspaper or a radio report or a TV show or a song lyric and missed something important to somebody nearby.
Jesus is here he says in communion--not like a dead corpse (Pat Keifert wisely notes)--but here for us and with us.
How about me--am I more than just a body to my family and friends.  Am I here present with them in this moment.
So much to think about.

writing again

Ok
so I am trying this out again.
I am hoping to get writing again.
Not sure why I've been gone from writing for so long
Maybe it's that my own story has been complicated.
I have a goal, and it's simple

a little writing every few days.
Not hours just a few minutes on quiet mornings after reading the Daily Office

I hope to work on short stories, poetry, and prose.
And the reason is simple.
Words have power.
From a great lyric to sermon--political discourse to a movie words have power.  And I am hoping to understand how that power works
and so i will be writing