Happy New Year!

Yesterday was Jewish New Year and I observed some traditions.  I thought about habits of the past year and whether they served to take me forward into this year.   I thought about what I could change to make me a better person and the world a better place — what can I do to be more useful to others?  Which always, for me, must start with how can I take better care of myself?

I committed to engaging in certain practices more consistently — less TV, less phone, more lego, more home cooking, more meditation, more early bedtimes — which make such a big difference to my wellbeing over time, and to that of my family and others.

And I got out Shefali Tsabary’s the Awakened Family, which is kind of like another bible for me, and I read a couple of pages I’d read before, and I felt grateful.

I’m not alone on this journey.  I am surrounded by friends I know and friends I don’t know who are all looking for the same things — whether they know it or not, whether they show it or not — love, community, connection, kindness.  

When I go softly into this world, the world gets softer. 

I’m gonna keep going.

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