In my experience with meditation the goal is to quiet your mind till it thinks of nothing. As you sit trying to think of nothing, thoughts arise. The goal is to not dwell on them but let them float away until new ones stop coming. Thich Nhat Han describes it as letting the idea bubbles [...]
The moment I woke up Tuesday morning I knew I would be home that night. I just
couldn't see stopping 35 miles short to spend another night camping out. I rode
south to Jenner, cut in on highway 116 along the Russion River and then south
along the Bohemian Highway through Occidental. Took backroads till I hit
Highway 1 [...]
Have you ever watched pelicans surfing? Five of them just cruised by in tight formation, inches from the water. I think that they use the air currents generated by the breaking waves for lift so that they don't have to flap so much. As soon as the wave collapses they pop up and flap over [...]