Mindfulness not about ignoring the future

Re Why we tend to ignore climate change: Teitel, April 21

I disagree with Emma Teitel’s assertion that people practising mindful meditation are selfishly preoccupied with the present and don’t care about the future. In my experience, mindfulness lessens anxiety, connects us more deeply to the world and each other, and strengthens our ability to take action, including against climate change.

We are not distracted from the world’s woes by being mindful; we are distracted away from the present and what faces us by a capitalist system that promotes endless consumerism — what we need to buy next. Mindfulness helps us get off that treadmill and wake up to new collective possibilities. Lorraine Endicott, New Glasgow, N.S.

Thank you for the hard work and unabating desire to win. And thank you above all for giving us a season that will never be forgotten.

The year the kids took it to the veterans and proved that hockey is an ageless sport. This was a series to be blissfully remembered to the end of days.

Here’s to next year boys. I can’t wait! Go Leafs Go! Troy J. Young, Toronto

I don’t believe I have ever been prouder of any sports team than I am of the current Leafs team. Someone must have neglected to tell these young men that they couldn’t compete at the NHL level.

True, they were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, but they are not losers in my estimation. Wm. A. (Bill) Richardson, Oshawa