Mindfulness: Read it. Lern it. Live it.

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Like many (many) others, I picked up The Hunger Games shortly after it was published. Now, I picked it up because it was required reading for school (Seton Hill MFA program—this is my only plug), but for the purposes of what I’m about to unpack, the reason doesn’t matter so much. The important thing is that I read The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and then Mockingjay within a few days and loved the everything out of them. The first-person present tense was engagi...