Broke Karma
First my watch band broke. Then, I backed into a car in my driveway. Yesterday it was a light bulb and a string of pearls. Small things. Buttons gone missing. Appointments I’ve scheduled disappear....
View ArticleMeditation Reminder List
Don’t ask for something big to happen. Don’t ask for something little to happen. Don’t ask for anything at all. Breathe. Imagine an empty cavity in your chest. Imagine a ball of energy rising from...
View ArticleReprieve
My friend Murray, a generous, gentle spirit, light of heart and full of heart. At least that’s what I thought. He liked me to recommend books for him even though it made him nervous because I’d always...
View ArticleThe Synchronicity of Catastrophe
This is how it goes if you’re my son Adam. It’s the weekend and you play in a softball game. You’re with your girlfriend and you both have a great time. The two of you walk home from the game along the...
View ArticleMore Bad Juju
Yesterday I was hit with a bad juju. I’ve been meditating faithfully, every day twenty minutes, trying to inoculate myself from an onslaught of tragedy and ingratitude. There is no immunity no matter...
View ArticleRe/\Active
I used to think that meditation made me less reactive. I was wrong. I get hurt, I get angry, I get irrational. I react. But, since I have begun to meditate, there is a pause between the action from...
View ArticleSnowy Day at the Juvenile Detention Center
If ever a group of people could use a bit of meditation, it is the young folks incarcerated at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center. This is a cavernous structure trying awfully hard to be...
View ArticleLebron
Just before I left my house for the Juvenile Detention Center where I tutor a functionally illiterate seventeen-year old boy, the hawk flew over my head, landed on a tree branch, and took a good long...
View ArticlePossum possibilities
The muskrat, I now realize was a possum. The possum is causing me an unreasonable amount of anxiety and although I try to meditate it away, he infiltrates my dreams in various animal forms. They walk...
View ArticleTiny Catastrophes
I don’t know what it means; I just observe. The bottle of club soda gets knocked off its shelf and shatters on the floor. Shards of glass are everywhere. The espresso pot tips over and the coffee pools...
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