Our ancestors instinctively knew of this circular model of growth. In many cultures, the wheel is a symbol of growth and success. It combines the idea of progress and wholeness: It is complete, and yet it keeps on moving. It represents the perpetual change and transitory nature of life. The cyclic ages of Hindu cosmology, the wheel of life in

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• post-tragic (meaning and agency on the other side of despair)

• post-extrinsic (driven by new societal purposes)

• post-rational (open to ways of knowing that transcend and include the intellect),

• post-exploitation (reflective about the uses and abuses of power)

• post-tribal (whole-hearted togetherness in a world of love and power; an expansive

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It’s January, and I love Januaries.

I love that they contain the weight of beginnings, solid as a piece of clay or wood.

I love their mystery, that tantalizing promise of dreams — what will the year bring? What hopes and hurts, what majesty and mayhem, what lessons and laments?

January holds in the palm of its hands the loss of the past. It reminds us... See more