Beauty from ashes . . . While driving through some of the hills that were severely burned in the California fires last year, I was struck by tiny pops of green amid so much char, barrenness, soot, and desolation. Fires are destructive. They are wild. They do not...
Sometimes we look ahead to a special time like a birthday, a milestone, or the new year for a fresh start by lamenting over ways we feel we missed the mark the year before and promising ourselves we’ll do better or be better. We focus on failures and commit to less of...
