Here and Now

Over at 43 Folders, Merlin is practicing "Mindfulness". This one sums me up pretty well:

There’s also mindfulness of mind. Until we deliberately listen for it, we usually pay little attention to the fact that there’s the constant chatter of a monologue — often idiotic — running in our minds. When we really lose ourselves, we can even work it up to a dialogue.
Our minds jabber to themselves much of the time…— Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen. p.102 [ ISBN Amazon.com ]