My pal Sarah sent me this message today, which she kindly let me reprint here, because it has a great sentiment for everyone to think about:

I think your Be Here Now project is pretty cool. After I got dumped by John one of the things that I did to try to heal myself was to start taking Daily Photos - this is one of my favorites because I know the light that I captured in my photo that day is something I’d never be able to capture any other day.

I am inspired by Lunch Poems, a book by Frank O’Hara (more about my inspiration under “Daily Photos” on this page) and by Danny Gregory who has an amazing book on keeping a daily sketchbook which really urges you to keep a daily illustrated journal, not to record everything that’s bad about your life but to celebrate everything that is worth celebrating, and to really take time to “see” everything around you. My most recent daily sketch celebrated fat free jello pudding cups which Anne’s gotten me addicted to, and which make me ridiculously happy.

So why do I think this message makes sense in the Be Here Now experimental world? Because Sarah’s talking about taking time every day to just get centered in a moment, to use tools like photography, writing and sketching to really dive into it. She even celebrates pudding! How awesome is that?