It's another year and we naturally tend to revisit  what we want in the year ahead. This week's talk on Capitol Hill is entitled "Intentions and Actions."   It was a wonderful turnout down in St. Mark's 'whine cellar' to start the new year.   The blurb:

The most important thing," Shunryo Suzuki famously said, "is to know what is the most important thing."

Short term intentions can be enormously helpful when you are going through a challenging time. Long-term intentions also serve to provide clarity around actions - not just the actions which will support your goals, but clarity regarding actions from which you might exercise restraint.