This moment

Had this quote rattling around my head lately:

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night,
I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too;
to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future,
which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

- Thoreau

I especially like the image conjured by the idea of "stand(ing) on the meeting of two eternities" to describe the present.