As a creative exercise Lynda Barry often suggests people to vividly visualize a scene from their past. She suggests a granularity I had never considered with things like: look down at your feet & what do you see. This process has been something I find myself doing, not as a journaling habit but rather as something that has invaded my meditation.

Perhaps that's a few steps ahead of where I should have started. I've gone back to meditation. I abandoned the practice out of laziness but with all...