Jerry Garcia Global Moment Of Gratitude Is A Call For Everyone To #BeKind

Be nice . It’s what Jerry Garcia would’ve wanted. 

Wednesday marks the 22nd anniversary of the Grateful Dead icon’s death, and one of his old bandmates is using the occasion to add a touch of kindness to the world. 

Drummer Mickey Hart posted on Facebook that he’d like people to pause at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT for the 3rd Annual Jerry Garcia Global Moment Of Gratitude. 

He wrote:

“Call your mom, forgive an old friend , purposefully send light and love out into the universe in honor of Jerry, the music, mother Earth, and mankind.”

Hart has set up an event page on Facebook , along with the hashtag #BeKind. Although the event had more than 500,000 virtual participants in 2016, he's hoping for even more this year.

“Let’s see if this year we can get 1 million people to send kind vibrations out to the universe all at once!” he wrote. 

Garcia died of a heart attack in a California drug treatment facility on Aug. 9, 1995. He was 53.