01.01.2026 : Begin Again

I want to start this first talk of the year with a simple invitation: to begin again. That’s really what this path is about. Beginning again. Over and over. This practice isn’t a straight line. It doesn’t move neatly from effort to progress to some final arrival. It’s much more like a loop. Or maybe a spiral.

If we believe practice should look like: practice, improvement, practice, more improvement, then when we inevitably fall short, we can feel discouraged or even ashamed. Sometimes enough to stop practicing altogether. That linear story doesn’t match real life.