5 Places I Have Tried to Meditate

The view from a speeding Hong Kong taxi

1. In my backyard, by the great big olive tree, I breathe rhythmically beneath the ghost of my childhood swingset.
2. In a cramped airplane bathroom that teems with peripatetic germs, I shut out the turbulence shaking the cabin side to side.
3. On the senior patio, I find a moment of peace (amidst the usual chaos) in the center of the empty Gaga Pit.
4. In a worn-down taxi in Hong Kong, I ignore my family’s loving bickering as I sit sandwiched between my brother and my suitcase.
5. In my bedroom at 2AM, I desperately try to quiet my overactive mind and, at long last, fall blissfully asleep.

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