Please Happy

Shot this with the iPhone just before going to our first meditation meeting with the Organic Garden Sangha. Great name, right? Just going there and sitting and breathing and listening to people made me feel less alone. It’s hard to remember that there are other humans with hearts here when we’re all stuck, isolated in our own cars stopped on the highway. It brings out the nasty finger-giving, curse-yelling meanies inside us. It brings out the sad loneliness. And we forget that we aren’t too different. Going to the 7 a.m. meeting this morning reminded me of that. We’re all in it together. In Thich Nhat Hanh’s practice, and many others, we bow to each other. This bow slows us down. It allows us to see each other. It’s a way for us to stop, to let the beauty within me acknowledge the beauty within you. We are here on the earth. Together.

Thich Nhat Hanh has this saying that I love. I’ve sent the saying on postcards to friends and family as a reminder. And I wanted to send every member of the group one this morning: “I Know You Are There and I Am Very Happy.”

(The photo shows the moon among the streetlights.)