Resolutions usually made in desperation become another excuse for guilt and self-denigration, another opportunity to feel like a failure. How can resolutions be a point of positive self-growth, instead, where we make them, and keep them, and benefit from their healing and restorative powers?
Despite do-nothing congressional Republicans, we ARE making progress around the country because Americans are organizing and mobilizing. Together we can make 2014 the year we turn the tide on economic inequality.
I resent my body and its annoying needs, its troublesome memories and emotions, its alarming register of the passing years. But I have learned time and time again that it is my only way back to feeling grounded and present in the world.
When I really think about 2013, I realize I spent most of the year looking for her. We once had a pact: If one of us died, you'd have to send the other one a sign that you were okay, that you weren't reeeeeally gone but just in a different place.
