A new year.  A new start.  A stack of resolutions.  By January 3, are you already drowning under the weight of these expectations?

Goals can be a worthy thing.  Grounded in self-compassion and kindness, they can help us become better, richer, wiser people.  Approached rigidly, they can be punitive and crushing- making us smaller, sadder, ‘failures’.

So take small steps and expect failure, but embrace that you took action.  The start is frequently the hardest part…

More concretely, the goal of starting a blog is a huge thing.  WordPress is baffling.  Writing is intimidating.  Time to write is elusive.

But here is the first post anyway.