You can kind of find mindfulness everywhere. This morning I found it by getting angry at the bananas.
Here’s how that went down.
Came downstairs to make myself some breakfast, including a nice cup of tea. I had this new box of tea pods I broke open.
I decided to get organized about it, and load the new pods into the little rotating stand that I have by the pod machine. But the bananas were in my way. There they were hanging on their little banana hook, in front of the stand.
Stupid bananas!
I picked up the hook and bananas and shifted it, them to our kitchen island. Satisfied with myself, but still angry at this inconvenience I began popping pods in the open spaces in the rack. As I did this some of the pods got dislodged and fell inside the stand.  The only way to get them out was to flip the whole thing upside down and shake the errant pods out onto the counter. Which I did, cussing under my breath.
Great, now I was angry at the pods, the rack, and the bananas.
That was when I found my mindfulness again. This was ridiculous, and really needless and petty. I realized I was not actually angry at the stand, nor the pods, not even those damn bananas. I realized that what I was angry at was my feeling of helplessness.
Which obviously right now comes from something else, you all know what.
I once again connected with a profound truth. In the moment, I often feel fear, pain, and anger... yes, even at bananas.
When I turned to face that fear and anger it didn’t go away, it changed shape to fit context. I could laugh at myself with gentle compassion as I realized the true source of my discomfort. I resolved once again to allow that sometimes I’m going to be scared, sometimes I’m going to hurt, sometimes I’m going to be angry.
Not so much that I’m permitted to be these things, to feel them but rather to fully embrace the truth that I have no choice otherwise, in that moment. Furthermore, that moment, like every moment, ends.
And then I was calm. 
So I did a few things. First, I finished loading the pods back in the stand. At the same time I smiled, laughed a little at how silly I can be. I realized that this whole lamentable affair was a shareable moment. So I took a couple of pictures, made them into the fancy photo you see below. And decided to write this post.
