Being serene is more important to me at this point in time than being successful. I don’t think this is the time of year where many plans are made or goals achieved, it’s just survival and helped along by a spirituality that I don’t feel is as needed at most other times. Was it not this time I first got into Buddhist teachings and Christian readings? St John of the Cross. Chess is a somewhat spiritual practice when taken seriously enough as it mostly has to do with thought and processing these thoughts. Less about the heavens. Perhaps I need to turn to my spiritual guide the RZA and listen to his meditation album. Whatever it is I find that thinking, deep thinking, really helps me get through this final push into the summer, the most tiring term bar none that seems to have all the shit in the world going on in it.