A pop-up meditation space has appeared in the empty lot where the Miller cottage stood until March. The structure, a geodesic dome made of reclaimed two-by-fours and salvaged greenhouse plastic, offers free twenty-minute grounding sessions to anyone willing to remove their shoes.

Organizer Mara Linden, who operates a crystal subscription service out of her Subaru, said the lot felt energetically available after the demolition. “The soil remembers what grew here,” she said, adjusting a singing bowl. “We’re just helping it remember out loud.”

The lot’s owner, a development group from Boise, has not objected. Their foreman, Dale Hargrove, stopped by Tuesday with a coffee and stood barefoot on the weed-barrier fabric for eleven minutes. “Felt okay,” he said. “Knees hurt less after.”

Sessions begin at dawn and run until the light shifts behind the Bridgers. A chalkboard sign lists suggested donations: five dollars, a locally foraged mushroom, or a genuine compliment to a stranger. No one has paid in mushrooms yet.

Neighbors have been supportive. Rita Petersen, who has lived in the cottage next door since 1978, brings lemon water in mason jars. “They’re quiet,” she said. “Better than the jackhammers. Though I miss the Miller’s lilacs.”

The dome will remain until the foundation pour begins in September. After that, the developers have promised a rooftop meditation deck on the fourth floor of the new building. Linden said she will consider it. “If the energy aligns,” she said. “And if they use the right quartz in the concrete.”

The lilacs are gone. The lot smells like dry dirt and sage.