This Is Our Year
Every day I walk away with some new nugget about the way I want to live my life—in service to others, accepting that I am always a work in progress, being more compassionate and more forgiving.
Lara Love Hardin • The Many Lives of Mama Love
How you will remember this time in your life 20 years from now. What you will wish you had done or stopped doing, what you overlooked, what little things you didn’t realize you should have appreciated.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Next year will be tough. But in dark times, some of the brightest lights emerge — through art, ideas, movements, writing. People will create beautiful things next year.
And what is creation, if not an act of hope?
And what is creation, if not an act of hope?
Hope isn’t naive — it’s necessary
This, then, is how I turned my year: not in a single high-stakes moment, but in a series of gestures that gently acknowledge the change taking place but that mark the continuities as well.
Katherine May • Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
So today I’m much more comfortable with life, as Alcoholics Anonymous has promised, and I know they’re right when they say it keeps getting better. My circumstances have steadily improved as my spiritual life grows and matures. Words cannot begin to describe the feelings in my heart as I sometimes ponder how much my life has changed, how far I’ve c
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