Nowisms: the Publication

All we have is Now

Jenny Lane
Nowisms

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Photo and Art, by author Jenny Lane

We go through our days flying through our moments, which are more valuable than anything anyone can give you, or anything you can trade. There is nothing more miraculous than this now.

Here is a home for our nowisms in words.

Here is a place we can turn the gift of presence into creations.

As it is, we are merely bolting through our lives — gulping down undigested experiences as fast as we can stuff them in — because awareness of our own existence is so superficial and so narrow that nothing seems to us more boring than simple being.

If I ask you what you did, saw, heard, smelled, touched and tasted yesterday, I am likely to get nothing more than the thin, sketchy outline of the few things that you noticed, and of those only what you thought worth remembering.

Is it surprising that an existence so experienced seems so empty and bare that its hunger for an infinite future is insatiable?

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god?

And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the…

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Nowisms
Nowisms

Published in Nowisms

Here is a place where we can be fully present and write our nows into existence

Jenny Lane
Jenny Lane

Written by Jenny Lane

An overthinking human who writes to make room in her mind and peace in our hearts. Art and words are my love letters to the world.

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