I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be

I sit on my carpet

Dusting my book and CD player stand

 

Jon Kabat-Zinn, one of my favorite meditation teachers

Advocates getting down on the floor at least once a day

Be it for yoga or praying or sitting to read a book

In touch with the Earth

Humbling yourself

Putting yourself in perspective

 

I look out my living room window

Across the parking lot that is my perpetual view

Up to the top of a street pole

That holds a street lamp

 

There I see a crow

Looking out from above the lot

Over an entire swath of this town

It knows its place, and I realize mine

 

And I know

On the carpet, among the stacked books

With dust rag and spray bottle in hand

I am right where I am supposed to be