Libra Review | Choose Better

You can view the original post here By Rev. Amari Magdalena We seemingly begin each new year with hopes, dreams, goals, and those nefarious resolutions that are oft whisked away in the buzz of living in an electronic age.   Some of us attempt to reclaim the newness with other New Years, Chinese, Nowruz etc.   Anything to keep hope of unmet aspirations alive. Yet life moves on and we are met by the positive and negative.   Hopefully we’ve learned as in Tao, to not place an uneven emphasis on either. That illusive quality of time seemed to dissolve in 2021, a numerological 5 year of change.   Just as many of us were celebrating a change in governance, a January political coup taught us how very fragile is our democracy. We witnessed a rise in hatred when love and acceptance were much needed. Conquering a deadly virus seemed within reach and yet we end this year with a troubling variant seemingly taking us back to ground zero.   Frustration over isolation and dramatic change...

You can view the original post here As soon as once more, I discover myself feeling drawn to put in writing as the top of one other yr, one other cycle, winds down earlier than delivering us into the start of the subsequent one. These weblog posts was once my essential outlet for expressing myself by the written phrase, and regardless of having transferred that outlet to the realm of book-writing, I've to confess it’s pretty to return again to this medium to depart a couple of phrases to commemorate this second in time. 2021 has been, for these of us who've the capability to acknowledge it, a microcosm of tumultuousness inside which we now have collectively been led to inhale sharply and maintain our breath, solely to exhale as soon as permission was granted. And as soon as that exhalation was handed and forgotten, we discovered an previous sample of respiration that felt acquainted and which introduced reduction after the season of hollowed fears which satisf...