I just reread this Elul post about making changes and growing. One of the unintentional benefits of having this blog is getting to track my own thought processes over time. Since I’ve been blogging a lot longer than I ever thought I would (six and a half years!), I also get to see evidence of growth, as what was revelatory …
I’m going through an exercise from Rabbi Nivin’s Elul workshop that’s been interesting and helpful. It’s a year-in-review writing exercise that covers different areas of your life. Basically, you go through different topics and write about what worked and didn’t work this year. The idea is to scan backwards over the past year and just write whatever comes to mind, …
It’s Elul. If I could have looked into the future a year ago and seen what the coming year would bring, would it have been a relief? A disappointment? It’s impossible to know how I would have felt then with my limited understanding, but one thing I know for sure is that I am not the same woman who went …
