Meditation is focus. Meditation is repetitively paying attention. Meditation is tending. Tending can be sitting, watching the resistance and opening in your thoughts or body. Tending can be outward with the repeated tasks of caring for yourself or others.
I was tired today, so was Boris. He slept in his basket next to the computer, while I struggled to keep working. He woke up, rubbed his nose and sneezed. He does this many times a day. Boris keeps me focused on life in my living space. He lives here. He sleeps here. I feed him as many times a day as he asks to eat. He sometimes goes to the apartment upstairs to visit and eat another flavor of cat food.
During the day Boris sleeps in his basket. The basket has a kitty heater that warms to 104 degrees when he lays on it. I bought the heater this year when he lost enough muscle mass to have trouble keeping warm. Boris weighed 7 lbs for 18 years. He is now at 5.75 lbs. The vet says he is losing muscle mass with age. Otherwise she says he is healthy. Quite healthy. Remarkably healthy for 18.75 years.
Today I tended to Boris. I brushed him and and arranged his basket. I rinsed and changed his water bowl. I opened a can of his favorite food, chicken soup for cats. I gave him his medicine for his bit of arthritis. He ate then slept. He woke and is now sitting in my lap. He is tending me. I am tending him. It is quiet. The phone is not ringing.
