Now this: My attempt to distill the essence of mindfulness
Recently as our daughter’s dog rumbled about our house, it saw something outside and bolted through the screen door, leaving it in tatters. After years of practicing mindfulness and teaching people about it, I was able at the dog-ruins-screen moment to just take a deep breath, smile, and think: Well, I guess that screen is toast! This bypassed a lot of angry protestations that would have more naturally come out of me had I not been practicing mindfulness meditation each morn