Meditation
In the time it takes to meditate I’m at peace with my oneness.
Then I work out—14 minutes on the bike, 20 minutes on the treadmill, 12 minutes on elliptical.
No end game, so go home.
There: listen to the deGaulle biography in which deGaulle describes France in the years right after World War ! as being in a state of, “noble melancholy.”
DeGaulle was a real general, a statesman, politician, writer of 4 vols. of memoir(s).
Read a wet book in the meantime before bedtime.