In place of resolutions, journal your way into the new year with these five lists. 

Remembering a simpler easier time is therapeutic and romantic.   

Best practices in botany suggest there are six reasons for pruning back on plant life.

Beginning around age 40, we begin to think more about our mortality.

Presence is a noun, and we experience presence as a state of being.

Synonyms for pleasure abound. Joy, satisfaction, gratification, delight, diversion, recreation, contentment, etc. Yet there is a distinction between pleasure and joy.

Every woman knows the territory of endings and beginnings.  The fertile void is the transition period from one phase of life into another. 

Neuroscience has advanced significantly since those ancient times, now revealing that in fact we have a symphony of senses. 

“It is through our names that we first place ourselves in the world. Our names, being the gift of others, must be made our own.” —Ralph Ellison, Collected Essays 

Learning when to listen and when to speak is an emotional intelligence skill, requiring a blend of self-restraint, self-awareness, and other orientation. 

You know that voice in your head, the negative, fearful, and critical one?  The taskmaster and relentlessly striving one?

Remember the five lists you made in January? It’s time to pull those lists out and review your year.