Day 5

I started meditating and it has stuck. It’s been more than a week. I want to keep this sense of calmness in my life always. I admit the last two months at work were incredibly stressful. I had massive heart palpitations. I went to a cardiologist. I wore a heart monitor. But it’s nothing life-threatening. Meditation is helping to soothe that overactive heartbeat. And painting. I want to paint more, paint everything. My boots, light switches, stairs, mirrors, the sliding glass door…everything. We live with a robot and so I painted him. He (yes, he) is a vacuum. His name is Horus. He reminds me of horseshoe crabs I’d see growing up in Rhode Island. And it’s his watchful eye that is getting the rogue crumbs off the floor. So now when he passes and bumps into the chair leg, we say, Hey Horus.

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