Ease into the Day (And How Not To Annoy Your Wife).
Before the break of dawn today, I did my morning meditation. This time I didn't have any audiovisual distractions. I'm looking at YOU, Hertz Rentals and Tom Brady! I've created a personal atmosphere that is not essential to the meditation process. However, it helps me center myself. I sit on my Cosmic Carpet - the art of the young woman sailing on undulating waves - and I prop my crooked back on a yoga seat. I'm stooping slightly more and more with each passing year and I'm fighting a losing battle to sit up straight like a proper member of the homo sapiens species. As an added atmospheric tool, I purchased a light projector called Galaxy Cove which casts the image of a star field crowned with a crescent moon against the bare wall facing me. Not essential, as I said, but it helps me. I activate the Calm app and conduct a few preliminary breathing exercises. I receive the sounds of chirping crickets and cars driving along the drizzle slicke...