Three memorable activities

Some campus organizations are actually for retired people, not so much for the typical college student.  One such organization at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point is “Learning is Forever” - “L.I.F.E.”.  Life holds “coffees” where interested members meet at a big table, and talk.  The recent meeting was about three activities we had done that were basically smallish but memorable.

Mine were 

1. I breathed

2. I ate

3. I read

Turns out that breathing is both essential for our bodies to operate normally and also a good attention anchor for meditation. Eating, similarly, supplies what our bodies need to stay living.  Reading, while not a function needed for basic life, is educational and something for our ever-busy minds to focus on.

I mentioned, when discussing my three activities, the book “City Reading” by Henkin that discusses the emergence of signs and written advertisements as a greater portion of the population could read.