This morning I woke up early. As I sat sipping coffee, I was thinking that the here and now needs to be appreciated and honoured for its own sake. It gives us too much that we usually ignore in our habitual conditioning and haste. There are countless problem-free zones in existence no matter what a particular negative situation may be. For some time, I have made it a point of thinking or singing to myself, when waking up in the morning: “ May peace fill our earth”. Children’s play, you may think. Sure, it is easy to think and say that. But to feel its reality from a certain angle of my own daily experience works like a balsam for me. It is more than a balancing act. I even enjoy to extend it a bit accompanying it on a keyboard or a recorder. It is pure joy.