A Reflection for 2026

Hi friends,
This is a brief virtual gathering, to reflect on the quote below and invite connection as we begin 2026. For many, it’s been a year of challenges. Though painful and difficult, challenges can invite deep opportunities for growth and healing. I will provide a meditation and a facilitated discussion centered around the quote below. Please read and reflect on it and consider how it might impact your mindfulness journey.

Thanks to my friend and colleague for sharing this with me. I found it really spoke to me. The photo is one I took on a November beach walk in Kennebunkport, Maine.

“Until I thought of myself as the sea”
By Hannah Rosenberg (2024)
I used to separate good days from bad until I thought of myself as an ocean. I used to split times I get strong from when I felt weak until I imagined myself as the sea. Calm and rocky, wild and soft, still and powerful and vast and more than any one thing. In the ocean it’s hard to divorce one mood from another, one wave from the next.
Now, on my worst days, I think of how good life is too, how I can still greet joy while swimming through grief. How fragile strength feels. How I’m not any one thing in any one moment on any one day. I’m all of it and all of it is me.