This morning was day 3 of a 5-day new year meditation. No particular idea or mental focus. Just get up before the sun rises and before the chickadee starts singing, and get outside. Cedar waxwings for company, and a little red leaf on the trail. Warmups and shoko-tenso. Sky-horizon. (Although this morning at 25 degrees, it was mostly walk, and walk faster.)

But between yesterday and today, life has been from dark to light, as though a switch were flipped. No change in circumstance or situation; no new intention. Just quiet ecstasy. Loneliness vanished. Light undammed.

The only source I can figure for the transition is the meditation. Just showing up…