"Beginning well or beginning poorly, what is important is simply to begin, but the ability to make a good beginning is also an art form, beginning well involves a clearing away of the crass, the irrelevant and the complicated to find the beautiful, often hidden lineaments of the essential and the necessary." - David Whyte ​

This year is coming to a close. Another year of both gift and challenge, joy and sorrow, old and new. The transition to a new year marks a moment that has been entered into as a time to pause, ponder and prepare, to acknowledge weariness and readiness to begin again. It is good for the soul to enter this tradition as so many have and will to come. Join me in this online space for a time of reflecting on what has been and readying for what may be ahead. We will spend time together in poetry and reflection questions with an optional chance to share what emerges. Bring your journal and an open heart. Rather than a time of making New Year’s resolutions, we will be deeply present to our souls as they are and listen for what is wanting to unfold.