Hi Aiko:
Actually the house in Washington, D.C. is under water. I'm not under water. The house is ! Water leaking into the basement. They say it's going to cost me around $15,000 to fix that before I can sell the house. I've already paid $24,000 for fix up in other respects. The money would otherwise have been available for educating our grandchildren. But anyway I am feeling more serene now, living, as you suggest, in the "Now". Actually living in the "Now" with the "Tao". Lao Tzu tells us that everything is illusion (the "ten thousand things") and only the Tao is real but no one knows or can know what it really is. Also there is a suggestion that even the "self" is an illusion so there is no one to know what cannot be known! Very mysterious! Very oriental! Ah sooooooo!
Bill