Just calm down

I am impressed by how good and right meditating feels.  The quality went up once I realized how good an anchor for my attention my breathing was.  I read "Conscious Breathing" by Gay Hendricks, one of my favorite authors.  I also read "Breath by Breath" by Larry Rosenberg and I learned about long periods of meditation, as performed by Buddhist monks in Korea.  I am certainly not much of a marathon anything, including giving myself calm and appreciation of my life and its blessings.  I like to do a little and come back later.

It is the beginning of spring now and that means local chipmunks are out of torpor stage and flirting and fighting.  They run across our back raised deck, drinking some of the water out for birds and wildlife.  I have looked in vain for calm, Zen chipmunks but they all seem faster than a human eye.  I suspect that none of them meditate or are capable of it.