Meditation Radio with a Live Chicago Clock

Lakefront stillness in broadcast form — flat-water ambience, an hourly bell, and Central Time kept faithfully quiet.

Chicago's best meditation hall is free and eighteen miles long: the lakefront at first light, when Michigan goes flat as poured glass and the skyline stands there doing absolutely nothing, magnificently. People run past it; the wiser ones stop.

The station bottles the stopping. Flat-water lake ambience, air moving over open distance, one bell an hour, and the Central-time clock at ember brightness. In winter — this being Chicago — the sound stays and the scene honestly darkens by four.

For pre-work sits in a Loop apartment, lunchtime resets, and the long indoor season when the lakefront is technically present but socially inadvisable.