The morning meditations here are much more difficult -- even listening to the tape-delayed liturgy of the word from the academic chapel beforehand, the mind feels as if weighed down by lead, and once or twice, I've even drifted off while writing.
Theory 1 -- The structure of the meditation provides a comparison across worlds, and since the same task is much more difficult here, there is something locally increasing the level of difficulty for tasks generally.
Theory 2 -- In that I had been habituated to the meditations in times of relative safety and sufficiency, accomplishing them now, given the current difficulties, is much more difficult.
To mull.