The theme of this year (Earth-Pig) is being gentle and kind to ourselves for the mistakes we've made in the past, especially those mistakes that have been us not doing something, or being lax in choices we've made.... where we've made the "easy" decision, but not the appropriate one.

I love the metaphor of this path of kindness being as a knife-edge... because it is, more often than not... otherwise, we would all be Boddhisattvas!! There's a reason we need to work at it.

I listened to a great On Being podcast the other week with a neuroscientist.... and his schtick is that our brains a re hard-wired to learn kindness. It is our birth-right... but we need to work to it.

😊🙏🏽💜