Sunday Meditation

 Sunday meditation
Of chores and self-care...
Gourmet mushroom raviolis 
With alfredo sauce...
Washing and drying 
The work clothes...
Folding the laundry...
Consolidating the trash...
Coffee, cigarettes, and weed...
Writing about mundane human things...
Thinking about the "every day"...
Everything is constantly changing...
Even the day in day out has little moments of hope...
Small sparks of joy...
Some hints of depth...
Chores are self care...
Activities of daily living are a form of introspection,
Meditation...
Simple, repetitive tasks
Give the mind space to breathe...
Sometimes boring
Is fine...
Sometimes menial is cleansing
In a more than literal fashion...
Grounding...
Connecting to the earthly part of the mind/body...
The springs and gears
That move
In perfectly timed rhythm...
Such a perfection of the mundane
That the motions take
No thought at all
To perform...
Quite unlike
The thoughtless way people sometimes treat each other in this world...
Too wrapped up in their our own inner turmoil
To give anyone outside more than a second thought...
We rarely feel
The pain that others feel...
But we have the ability to...
We rarely consider
The struggles of "the other"...
It's not easy to do...
And it often has no effect on outcomes
Unless both parties
Can step into
Each other's experience
Just a little...
Short of true understanding,
It's laundry, garbage, sweeping, mopping...
Baby steps...
Slowly tidying up
The corridors of the mind...