The Gaylord Palms resort is a spectacularly strange place, a huge dome with self-contained world of restaurants, shops, more than 1,000 rooms. It is where I am staying this week, where the North American Veterinary Conference is. Not a spiritual place, yet a spiritual place. I got up early, walked with Maria. We find ourselves drawn to the animals here. We keep visiting the Koi, and the baby alligator (there is a Pirate exhibit too in this odd place) and then, as the sun came up, I sat and meditated on the balcony. I was the only person on a balcony in this vast place. We had breakfast and I am reading Buddhist translations of the Psalms, as I have been doing. Religion’s poems, I think.

We are heading off to the Magic Kingdom. Just downloaded the Magic Kingdom App for the Ipad, whose role continues to grow in my life.

“Be still

Offer that

For it is fitting

Trust it

For it is the rightness of all that is

People say

Who will bring us

What we need?

Who will beam

Heaven’s light

on us?

And I will lie down to sleep

With a deep peace

For in you

I find my completion.”

Psalm 4