I would like to make meditation a part of my daily routine (inasmuch as I have one). Not necessarily every day — but several days a week, in the same way that I have been successful in walking to or from work several times a week (though we’ll see what happens as winter approaches). Nothing fancy — no complicated yoga positions or "om" intonations — just, say, 15-20 minutes of sitting quietly and thinking about nothing in particular, perhaps with some incense or candles burning. Maybe when I overhaul the layout of my bedroom, I’ll make a little corner with a big pillow on the floor or something, and a place for the aforementioned candles and incense, and it can be my “meditation corner.”
And I will be overhauling the layout of my bedroom. For one thing, I’ll probably have 2-4 new zebra finches in a few weeks, so I’m going to move Franny and Zooey and their new neighbors into the bedroom, since there’s more room there than in the living room. I also might break down and finally buy the desk I’ve had my eye on for the past 4 months. If so, that will also go in the bedroom, probably along the left wall. And I need to pry my Master’s degree out of the tube it’s stuck in and have it framed, so I can hang it on the wall opposite my Bachelor’s degree. Oh, and I also want to get one of those fancy-shmancy air purifiers from The Sharper Image. Can’t decide which purchase takes priority — that or the desk.
God, I sound like such a consumer. But I shouldn’t be too hard on myself. I don’t fill a void by buying all the extraneous stuff that so many people do. ("Where’s my stuff??") <– Jenny and Niki will get that; just one of our many inside jokes.
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