Comments on: Meditating With a Crowd

By: Jill Morrow

Jill Morrow — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:23:27 +0000

In reply to Kristina. Kristina, I like that! My image seems to be a boat drifting on a peaceful lake between two land masses. I dunno, it's just what came. I like the ripples in the water, the calmness of the sky. Maybe that image will change one day, but for now it feels like peace.

By: Jill Morrow

Jill Morrow — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:21:45 +0000

In reply to Robert DiNapoli. Robert, I'm glad you found something that lifts you higher. Zoom would be a non-starter for me, but if it helps take you where you need to be, more power to you!

By: Kristina

Kristina — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:57:40 +0000

I used to think this, too. “Oh I’m terrible at meditating, my inner voices won’t shut up.” I used to use this mental image of an arm sweeping across a cluttered desk to shove all that stuff away. But that was still aggressive, resisting energy. Then I read some meditation books.

Now my favorite image is of a campfire, and the thoughts are smoke and embers rising into the dark. I just watch them go and eventually they wink out of sight.

I’m not perfect at this (who is, at anything, ever?) but it’s made all the difference.

By: Robert DiNapoli

Robert DiNapoli — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:22:09 +0000

I find some refuge in, of all places, the Zoom sessions (who’d’ve thunk it?) I conduct with different individuals and small groups. Some of us have been meeting for over a decade now, and our play with Old and Middle English texts (which really is play and not work) reminds me of what the idea of a ‘college’ is supposed to be: an amiable gathering of colleagues. Our focus on the play of language, on its constantly dancing forms and sounds, anchors us in a way that completely shuts out the babble/Babel of voices that pour in, from outside (the constant media rumble) or from inside (the echo-chambers of our own heads). Not everyone’s cup of tea, I’m sure, but it’s worked for me so far . . .