![]() ![]() When Mireille was eleven years old she’d been crossing the street in Houston with her mother, and maybe there had been a car turning, or maybe she’d not been paying attention, but her mother had sort of grabbed her to pull her away from something and a teenager had plowed into her mother with his skateboard and then stalked off saying, “Stupid bitch. She’d be totally out of a job if everyone acted like an astronaut. Well, and messed up people needed massage therapists, too. People being so messed up meant they needed actors to tell stories so we could try to understand ourselves. Mireille isn’t as bothered by how perverse people are. It bothers Luke that people know this and don’t do it. ![]() When you’re not doing any of those things, you eat sparingly of vegetables and enjoy the natural world. When you’re not meditating, you involve yourself in charitable acts, helping others, being generous, caring for the needy. You become someone who meditates regularly, freeing yourself from your own ego and living in the present. “Okay, I’ll have you turn over now.” Mireille makes the sheets into a little tent and looks away while Mr. ![]()
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