Much of our life we are trying to connect the dots, to pierce the heart of reality to see what is good, true, and beautiful for us. We want something lasting and transcendent.*
(Richard Rohr)

It’s not that we need more if we are to pursue our dreams, it’s how we bring the most important things to us together into a story: select, arrange, enhance.

There are a lot of dots and you don’t need to connect all of them.

Let me know if I can help.

(*From Richard Rohr’s Immortal Diamond.)

won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
[…]
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay*
Lucille Clifton)

A moment is different to a minute – a different kind of time. Time with meaning added.

Even this moment, as you are reading these words, can begin an adventure that you can fling open across this new year.

There won’t be any magic. The world won’t shift under your feet. It’s only a first step on a new path, it’s only an opening to walk through to see what’s on the other side. And yet such beginnings can lead to magic and shift worlds on this bridge between starshine and clay.

It may simply be that you desire to use this year in a different way. Then go find a notebook or fold up some paper – or even determine to buy some, grab a pen, and write out your values – the things that matter most to you, the kind of world you dream of living, the world you want to invite others into.**

(*Lucille Clifton, quoted in Maria Popova’s Figuring.)
(**You can also determine in a moment to begin two lists, one to accommodate really energising moments you notice, the other to be filled by really de-energising moments – both will tell you a lot about yourself.)