Aspirations & Ancestors
As the year winds down, it’s a natural time to pause and reflect. Amid the busyness, it can be supportive to consider the lessons, growth, and accomplishments that have shaped your year. Reflection connects us to our progress, offering a satisfying sense of clarity and gratitude. Can we also dare to explore our deepest desires and aspirations—not just what we’ve done, but what we truly long for? In doing so, we step into the role of a good ancestor, recognizing that the choices we make today—our dreams, actions, and care for the present—shape the world that future generations will inherit. By nurturing our aspirations and tending to the conditions that allow them to flourish, we lay the foundation for a sustainable future.
Unfolding vs. Self Improvement
I've written about growth and transformation and what makes lasting change possible and I've contrasted that with our all too common common drive for constant self-improvement. There’s a little more I want to say about this, because it’s so prevalent in our culture. I have found there’s another way but first I want to make a few distinctions between self-improvement and development and introduce unfoldment.
Transformation and Lasting Change
Transformation and change. What makes transformation possible? What gets in the way of change? These are big questions. It’s through responding and doing something differently and consistently that we feel the shift that some transformation has occurred.
Welcome to Wholeness
January is the time when we often look at the year ahead and set a resolution. Or maybe you simplify and just find a word to represent and guide your year. What I’d like to offer you instead is a bit of a paradox. What if you started with the premise that nothing is missing?
Golden Threads
In the tapestry of life, there isn’t just one golden thread, but many interwoven strands. To start on this journey, simply get curious, turn towards your inner world, and begin the delicate task of unraveling. The entry is simple; start anywhere. Start exactly where you are, at this very moment.