This Is Us

An Ode to Murphy, or How I Finally Learned to Meditate

Maybe we’re all a bit like my shelter dog Murphy — we’re just trying to protect ourselves

Kristin Wong
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readMar 5, 2021

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Illustration: Draden Ferguson

It’s noon, time for my daily meditation. I open the app on my phone and press play.

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Kristin Wong
Human Parts

Kristin Wong has written for the New York Times, The Cut, Catapult, The Atlantic and ELLE.