It’s Sunday! If you’re new to Now is Good, then you have yet to experience Moments for Now, a collection of “presents.”
Whether you found yourself struck by light filtering through the leaves of a tree or became fully aware of your being as you made a meal in your kitchen, Moments for Now is a place for those experiences.
This project is fully reliant on your submissions. It asks you to take a photo or write a little description and send it off to me to archive.
You actively engage in a ritual, acknowledging that little space in time when you were fully here in the now.
For the past 10 months I have placed the collections in Sunday emails, inviting this circle to visit our shared “presents” through weekly dispatches.
In early January I took stock of my various projects and I felt it was time to shift the platform to allow for a more dynamic Moments for Now experience. There have been times where little videos have been submitted, to show the dance of grass or capture the specific rhythm of water droplets. Up until now I haven’t been able to share those moments, because the email doesn’t allow for it.
Here is where the new era enters! I have decided to create a Tumblr to hold our Moments for Now. It will be open for submissions and will be updated on a rolling basis. Every month I’ll send out a selection here, but you can submit your moments whenever, check-in frequently or follow along if you have a Tumblr of your own.
I’m currently creating an archive of the old dispatches, configuring the format to best suit our project. In an effort to not rush things (especially not during Mercury Retrograde) I have decided to go slow and steady. I expect to share the Tumblr with you next week!
As always, all submissions will be shared anonymously. If you would prefer a past moment that you submitted be excluded from the Tumblr forum please respond to this email and let me know!
AND since I have you, today I’m opening up the books for Personalized Meditations.
Looking through your meditation questionnaires always feels like a secret, sacred and unseen. Only your words and my voice meet on the plane of inner being. This is the third time I’m offering these custom pieces and I can’t wait to see what you have for me to work with.
Lastly, I’d like to share a piece of writing from the great Thich Nhat Hanh. If you’ve been a reader for a while, you’ve definitely seen me share his words. He passed away on 1.22.22, at age 95. Our world was changed for the better thanks to his words and his fierce work in the face of losing everything.
He encouraged mindfulness in every moment, including those infused with suffering. After I read Peace is Every Step, my life was never the same. It is a text that I can revisit again and again, as each time it shifts in my hands to tell me what I need in the here and now.
This is a passage I found today as I was pouring over his words:
A reminder that nothing has ever truly left us, our collective connections run deeper than we can ever imagine.
Hope you have a lovely start to your week.
xx
James