On Trying Something New, Part 2

The turn of the calendar is often an occasion to reflect on where you’ve been and where you’re headed, to turn a fresh eye or open heart toward what you want to live into.  Some folks are big into making new years resolutions – I’m not among them, so this episode isn’t about that.  Instead, you’re invited to listen in on a living room conversation among friends.  We wonder with each other:  What's been sparking for you since our very first episode last fall, about Trying Something New?  What makes the difference between change that we experience as loss to be grieved, or as possibility to be embraced as an adventure?  What do we make of the “liminal” or space-between invitation to change, and our decision about whether and how to respond to the invitation? And in the spirit of what Annie Dillard says in her book, The Writing Life: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”:  How can we practice being who we are, and are becoming?