Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas McConkey.

Thank you so much for listening today.

Every week on Mindfulness Plus, I like to bring you a story,

an image, a metaphor that couples with some teaching in the mindfulness tradition, broadly speaking,

the tradition of meditation, awareness practice, training the mind towards the end of becoming a happier,

freer, more compassionate, service-oriented human being. In a nutshell, that's what we're up

to. If you're new, just in case, check out our old episodes if you haven't listened to them.

I hope they're as fresh today as they were when we recorded them.

I'm not building on a particular curriculum here.

It's just kind of an impressionistic mindfulness journal that I bring to you here on Mindfulness Plus.

So thank you for enjoying.

Thanks for listening today.

Speaking of stories, I have a story that really was a mindfulness teaching to me.

And I thought I'd told this story on Mindfulness Plus because I'd tell a lot of stories here

and I couldn't find it. So hopefully it's your lucky day if you like the story.

I worked for an oil painter.

When I got out of college, I worked in a little artist shop to save up some bucks, some bread

and cheese money before I moved off to Europe.

This is a while ago.

This is back in 2003, so almost 20 years ago.

I enjoyed myself in Spain. I think you've heard me talk about that. I could do a whole series.

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