The next morning, Sawyer was still sleeping soundly when I got up at five-thirty, my head spinning with all I wanted to accomplish. So I double-checked that my emails and ads were ready to go for the day and spent a few minutes with the manual for the cash register I needed to set up this morning.
But when I heard Saw stirring, I settled myself on the couch with my coffee to take some deep breaths for just a few minutes and center myself.
More and more, I’d been learning that my tendency to jump ahead into the next thing or to keep the list of things I needed to do constantly spinning in my mind made me very anxious. So I was meditating more with an eye toward the moment I was in. I was getting better at the “be here now” mantra, but it was hard.
Still, by the time Sawyer came down, I w
