When we believe that the only answer to our problems is more, we quickly run out of capacity. We only have so many hours in a day to do things, and by continuing to stack more on and more on top of each other, we end up depleted, exhausted, and stuck in the same cycles that left us searching for something different.

Before we rush towards the final months of the year, perhaps spring offers us another invitation: to pause long enough to notice what is actually ready to emerge.

A few weeks ago I went to visit a friend to borrow something for my daughter. When I walked into her house, she had items everywhere. There were boxes of kids' stuff, and old items that needed tossing away. When I asked what she was doing, she told me that she had a dream and was told that she needed to clean her house. And while cleaning the physical spaces we are in is a great way to start the spring, cleaning the physical space also gives us the opportunity to declutter a