The past obliterating the present and the future

If you were casually flipping through the pages of the Bozeman Chronicle on Sunday April 12, 2009, you may have skimmed over the obituary for Gail Keiter. She was a friend of mine. On the Wednesday before she must have decided that she could take no more of the present. I can only imagine that she let the residue from the past come creeping over the walls of the present. Gail was a tragic story of how the past can not only possess but consume the present as well as any hope for the future if you are not vigilant in your attempt to create an acceptable present day and a hopeful future for your and those who count on you.