Nostalgia Gets a Bad Rap But ‘This Weird Old Trick’ Might Help Us Calm Our Anxiety by Focusing on What Really Matters
Being here now gets a lot of press.
I just googled it now and here’s what I got:
About 25,270,000,000 results (0.68 seconds) ~ Google search for “be here now”
I also got an immediate come-on from Amazon trying to get me to buy the book, Be Here Now, by Ram Dass.
One of the few moments that I have ever been able to be here now — to have been there then? — (what is the proper syntax when speaking of such mysteries?) — was when I went to a workshop by artist/writer/genius Lynda Barry at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. It is a place, coincidentally, where you can find the Ram Dass library, “which is designed in an eight petal lotus blossom shape to represent Ram Dass’ service to public health, advancing social justice, and supporting spiritual development throughout the world.”
But it wasn’t the Ram Dass library where I felt herenowness at the Omega Institute in August, 2017. It was the gardens. We had to get up at the crack of dawn to get breakfast before our morning…
