Finding Stillness at the Heart of Chaos

✍️ Stillness is not the absence of chaos; it is born from within it.

I vividly remember a specific dinner table conversation in 1973. I was 12 years old, and my parents had decided to relocate to a smaller town. We had only been in our current home for two years, and it felt like a failed experiment. In a bid to shield me and my brother from the street life's insanity—drugs, violence, intellectual poverty—they bought a b…