Daily meditation has formed a safe and consistent bastion of stability in my world over this past summer, a time period when I needed it most. In addition to the formal meditation practice, I’ve also been taking things quietly, using what focus I can find to get through the work days, and spending the remaining hours of the afternoons and evenings writing these blog posts, listening to music, and doing some light reading.
This song came over the radio the other day, and I paused in the post I was writing to listen.
Originally I thought that the fall would reinvigorate me, allowing us to move beyond what was a terrible summer, but I haven’t quite felt that. Not yet. It might simply be that I’m not ready, or it may be that this is the slower pace and quieter footfalls of all that is to come. Learning to accept that is part of this fall, and there is already something peaceful and calming about it.
