Fiction (novel, short story)
Mindfulness in Tunisia
Social Alternatives, Vol.35(1), pp.57-60
Social Alternatives
2016
Appears in NTRO Research Collection
Abstract
Mindfulness. His body is on a bed in the Imperial Marhaba Hotel but his mind is on hot Arabic silica. Kelsie would say 'stop being a toss and just call it sand' but Kelsie is gone. She can think what she wants back in Essex. And anyway, this is his meditation and he is thinking of his feet and their tangibility - they are not on white hotel sheets, they are carving a neat divot in white sand. His thoughts then move over his ankles and along his legs - heavy, cradled - around his hips - open - to his torso - present and centred on the careful intake of breath. He is not in air conditioning. There is heat above and below. The heat is what he came for. He is calm. He is responsive. He is conspicuous…
Details
- Title
- Mindfulness in Tunisia
- Authors
- Ross Watkins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- Social Alternatives, Vol.35(1), pp.57-60
- Publisher
- Social Alternatives
- Date published
- 2016
- ISSN
- 0155-0306
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2016 Social Alternatives. Reproduced with the permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450583702621
- Output Type
- Fiction (novel, short story)
- Local Fields
- NT2
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