The Looking Glass: The Year of Everyday Risks

The year of everyday risks

How does one live more alive ?

The concrete way I will try is taking more risks.

Not Bet the farm on red, or Climb Mt. Everest -type risks, but rather, the everyday ones.

Everyday risks — the small actions that come with a twinge of discomfort.

It’s January, and I love Januaries.

I love that they contain the weight of beginnings, solid as a piece of clay or wood.

I love their mystery, that tantalizing promise of dreams — what will the year bring? What hopes and hurts, what majesty and mayhem, what lessons and laments?

January holds in the palm of its hands the loss of the past. It reminds us... See more