Begin Again: Standing Up after Falling Down

Let’s open this New Year, 2023, looking back at what has been scorched – a clearing of sorts that calls to mind the great sequoia trees, the fires they survive, and the new earth cleared for new seeds to take root. The uncertainty of recent years has left most of us in prolonged states of anguish and grief. Let’s gather and discuss tomorrow and the day after that, the sunlight, water, and soil, needed to grow with hope and vision in turbulent times.