MEDITATION // HAUNTED BY THE FUTURE

by Toby Jaffe

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EXCERPT //

It tends to be springtime... spring 2010. I am standing in the school parking lot in the early afternoon. The air is thick with the luscious New Jersey bloom of May but also quite a bit of pungent blackish-gray exhaust from the line of yellow buses and commercial vans waiting to take all of us home. Yet, the sun shines bright as ever and I am laughing with friends, confident and happy for a few moments.

These are the kinds of scenes that have grown particularly vivid since I began meditating. That is to say—the vividness of these scenes has birthed in me a kind of scattered, staticky emotional understanding of love and loss, joy and pain, and things unsayable and perhaps unknowable.

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