Evening

Before sitting to meditate, I had been reading a book about organic gardening. Thoughts come up about how I could make the back yard into an organic garden. Thoughts about composting, pest control. The cat comes in the room with me. I hear him walking around exploring this room that he doesn't often enter. And then he, like I, begins to settle down. Hearing ringing in my ears, my heart beating. Feeling my forward slump as a crowding of internal organs. I adjust my posture, and as I sit up straight, the organs feel less pinched and confined. Just as I think it might be time for the timer to go off, it does. I open my eyes to see the cat sleeping on the bed pillow.