The brimming year

2015 has been quite year.

It’s been such a big one for me that I had to take a hiatus from the blog for a long, long while.

And it’s because I’ve been brimming. 

Most people think of “brimming with gratitude” when they hear the word brimming.

And I’m happy to say that I’ve had moments like those, yes.

But I’ve also been brimming with other things.

Brimming with sadness, brimming with fear.

Brimming with anger, brimming with jealousy.

Brimming with joy, brimming with love.

I’ve been brimming with all sorts of feelings this past year.

And what about you?

What’s been brimming in your heart this year? 

Will you be partaking of more of the same in 2016?

I’d like to help you pick what your heart holds this year.  It’s certainly true that we don’t have full control over this.  But we can certainly have wishes and intentions.

And we can practice open-heartedness, to meet whatever comes our way with as much compassion as we can muster.

So, I need your ideas.  I need to know where to start!

I’d love your help with knowing what to write about in 2016.  I write this blog somewhat for me, it’s true.  But it’s also for you.

So what will our hearts practice this year?  What will we be brimming with?

Looking back, looking ahead

I look back on many of the posts I wrote over the last few years, and I laugh a little bit. 

I laugh because I can see so clearly how those words were written for me.

I always knew at some level I was doing this, writing for me as much as for you, but it’s even more clear to me now.

For example, this post on sleep that I wrote.  Still some good advice there.  Some good stuff, sure.

But I should have started my list about sleep hygiene and what to do when sleep won’t come with an extra tip.  If I were to rewrite that list, it would go something like this:

Sleep tip #1:  Clear your bedroom of all distractions, including but not limited to your phone, computer, and any wailing infants lying nearby.

I realize I wrote that post, and many others like it, from the perspective of someone who does not have young kids.

It makes total sense to me that I wrote from that perspective.

I wrote what I knew.  But I still marvel as I look at it from my vantage point now.

And even now, I admit I’m looking at these posts through the sleepy eyes of a new parent.

I wonder about how much to say about that, remembering that I want this writing to serve you, and not just me.

So, hop in. Let’s go!  Let’s have some conversations about all this stuff in 2016.  

Let’s have lots of different perspectives and vantage points and questions represented.

I invite you to write me and tell me what you’re longing to read about.

Where are you feeling stuck?

Are you wanting some words of encouragement?

Would you like some new ideas to try?  What about?

I mean, I could just wake up the blog with a couple of sharp smacks to the head, and just start writing.  But wouldn’t it be nicer if we could have a conversation about it?

Fill me in.  What do you want to read about?