On endings that are actually beginnings We've been thinking about fields lately. Not metaphorically, at first — just actual fields, the kind that get worked all season and then, one day, are simply ready. Nobody negotiates with a field. It tells you when it's time, and you either listen or you watch things go to seed on their own. We think August is telling us something similar this year. We're still standing in the last of summer's fire as the month opens — that warm, unguar

There is a common belief in our culture that healing is something we must do alone. We buy another book. Listen to another podcast. Download another meditation. We tell ourselves that if we just learn enough, meditate enough, or become "better" somehow, eventually we'll feel whole. While solitude is a sacred part of every healing journey, it is only one part. The truth is, humans were never designed to heal in isolation. From the beginning of time, people gathered in circles.