Happy to say, thanks to Monica, that I am now a couple months into a weekly meditation practice. Starting slow, with guided meditations and only but a half an hour per week. Sometimes, as Yogananda says, "Environment is stronger than will;" for me, with meditation, this has certainly proved true.

I am also finding, on the downhill side of my fifth decade on the planet, that the things that are good for me (like meditation, like smiling, like always wishing my coworkers a hearty "Good Morning!") are more important than they have ever been. Today the meditation was, "Notice that pain, notice that annoyance. This pain now. Then return to the breath, noticing the beginning of the in breath, the end of the in breath, the beginning of the out breath, the end of the out breath. This moment."