Be where you are

Is this it?  Sometimes I look at my partner after a disagreement, my child after a meltdown, my house after something breaks, and I think: Is this really what life turned out to be? More often, I look critically at myself—my tired eyes, my wrinkled forehead, my struggles to join group conversations, my endless list of worries—and think: Is th

But no matter how long we discuss the question “What should I do?” there is no conclusion. You must just be here. “Here” doesn’t mean Minneapolis or San Francisco. “Here” means right now.