A Placemat for Meditation

A child’s meditative experience

Photo by Sandeep Kr Yadav on Unsplash

When I was a little girl of eight, I felt a pull from the grass and the trees.

So instead of playing inside with Barbies, I took my favorite Snoopy placemat, plopped it in a depressed spot on the ground, and sat on it.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but that placemat was my meditation mat, and I unknowingly began…