[Stuart Dole]

I used to do a “morning sit” – I’d recite my version of the “Thanksgiving Address” – making up variations as needed, then sit in “sense meditation” until it was time to cook breakfast. I’d sit on the back patio with my coffee – or looking out on the backyard for the rare times of heavy rain.

Now I’m a full-time caregiver for my wife, who is dancing with Parkinson’s. So I make coffee for us both, make sure she’s settled, then start breakfast, then journal my dreams, then all the little chores of the morning. Now caregiving is my spiritual practice.

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