Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas Mekonki. Thank you so much for listening today.

I'm still feeling the intensity of the world situation.

I appreciate you listening last week and participating in a meditation that hopefully invites us to hold the world in a more awake, embodied, compassionate way.

I'm going to offer a little different content today, not unrelated,

in terms of how we can practice more effectively in day-to-day life.

And, true to form, I've got a little story about it.

So where to start?

I'll start with a confession because confessions are juicy

and we like to lean in and hear people's deep dark secrets.

Maybe I oversold it.

It's not that deep and dark, but I have a very low home improvement self-esteem.

I've lived in my current home for about five years. It's a fixer-upper, aren't they all?

And I'm not very good at fixing up things.

One of the projects that's been going on at our place for several

years now is painting the front porch. So it was last summer, I decide, okay, I'm going to

summon all my manliness and home improvement quotient to get this thing painted. First layer was primer and it was all downhill from there.

It was a really hot day, like really hot. It's an east facing porch. The sun's coming up over the east.

We're getting into close to 100 degree days of this point in a Salt

Lake City summer. And I learned pretty quickly as the sun got a little bit higher and the heat

started to rise, that the heat, the direct sunlight on the coat of primer was causing it to get a little

gummy. There's a tough consistency starting to get cakey in the coat of primer was causing it to get a little gummy.

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