Can't meditate? Just l-e-t g-o . . .

IT HAPPENED some time recently - maybe in the last six months, or a year - that everyone I know started meditating. Or at least they talked about the desire to meditate. Some used apps such as Headspace; others just put on trippy music and zoned out. A few went to events put on by Medi Club, a kind of meditation-cum-social group.

"Mindfulness," we're calling it, this desire to take a chunk of each day and simply live in the present.

I need some of that calm and focus in my life. I have a tendency to …