Mindfulness is present-time awareness. It takes place in the here and now. It is the observance of what is happening right now, in the present moment. It stays forever in the present, perpetually on the crest of the ongoing wave of passing time.
If you are remembering your second-grade teacher, that is memory. When you then become aware that you are remembering your second-grade teacher, that is mindfulness. If you then conceptualize that process and say to yourself, "Oh, I am remembering," that is thinking. --Henepola Gunaratana, from Mindfulness in Plain English
When I remember Bette, I think about her blue Thunderbird with opera glass windows and her soft, cool hands. I remember thinking that she was a very tall lady and that she was free to go wherever she wanted to go because she wasn't married. She took me with her, wherever she wanted to go because she wasn't married. She went home to Minnesota after that summer teaching job in Hawaii and got married, had a son and is now retired. But we've always been together, on paper and in memory: I am five and she is tall with soft, cool hands. I am grateful for memories, whenever I think about them and mindfully pamper this old photograph.
"Photographs and Memories" by Jim Croce (You Tube 2:16)