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Weekly Contest #343
I’m in my usual morning position, standing at the kitchen counter, feet in slippers, in front of the microwave. I’m waiting for my coffee which is heating in the microwave. It mustn’t boil. One minute thirty is perfect. I rotate my head on my shoulders gingerly, ignoring the cricks. Yes, I probably overdid the wine last night. But… with reason. It seemed as if the clock had gone back thirteen years, no seventeen, and I was hopelessly back ‘in love’ with the boy-next- door. Well, not exactly ‘next door,’, but Luke fitted that description for ...
Weekly Contest #146
Mindfulness vs. Mindlessness The room is a cool green, minty, or aquamarine, a colour which encourages the atmosphere of comfort and relaxation which, I believe, because I am told, is central to any mindfulness therapy. We are told to close our eyes and think about our bodies in relation to the chair, the floor, the ceiling, the window; anything really, except the other people in the room: those others (why are they here?) whose eyes dart about, who shift uneasily, who avoid eye contact. We are asked to imagine that we are walking beside a...
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