Looking out my Backdoor: 'Be Here Now' (Travel later)

Thank you, Ram Dass. I confess, I’ve not read his book of above title. But I understand the concept, some.

I do be, and I be where I am planted, and I be where I am right at this moment, glorying in the beauty (even when mixed with pain) I am given, every day. I often say, I am the luckiest woman. However …

An unusual thought-want-desire-plan sprang nearly whole into my mind the other night while my eyeballs ran over the first paragraph in a new book I’d just sat down to read. I scanned that paragraph 50 or 60 times and never read a word. I was off in another world, on the road.

I’m going to l...