Rethinking January
January 25, 2016
by Kim Childs, CPPC As 2015 came to a close, I felt ready for a long winter's nap in the wake of some family losses and hardship. "I want to take January off!" I told close friends, while going ahead with business as usual. Well, 2016 was barely a week old when an upper respiratory infection forced me to spend a lot of time "off," reading all those books I'd wanted to read and starting the contemplative practices I was…