And I muddle my way out of accepting her aspirin with a fib that I’m allergic to aspirin. She asks, of course, what I do when I have a headache. The hole gets deeper as I frantically try to think of an answer that won’t just give rise to another question. Then, it occurs to me that a good cure for a headache would be meditation, although I have no scientific evidence to prove that. I do know something about meditation, however, and I steer the conversation in that direction, from describing my own attempts to how Bradley was deeply involved in it.
“My cousin Bradley was very serious about it. Is very serious, I should say. I think he still meditates.”
“But did he buy a book or what?”
“Oh no. He learned it from a guru named Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who he met in California. They have meeti
