Elul Reflection - 9.5.23 - Lindsay Ackerman

Two quotes from my mother and Mother-in-Law, respectively:
"Begin anywhere" and "Perfection is the enemy of good."

As one contemplates the New Year, a new beginning of sorts, it is a time of reflection and anticipation, a time of thoughtfulness and new opportunity, a time to cleanse the slate and adorn it with the freshly sharpened instruments we are given to design, color, and create the future. I find these two quotes very meaningful in my life. They encourage me to not be afraid to try, to believe that just by the act of beginning I am principally putting my wheel in motion, and from that anything can, and something will, happen. It is then up to me to steer that something where I want it to go. As uncertain as that may seem, what is certain is that without the start, I know I will go nowhere and that is decisively not where I'm looking to journey. 

Shanah tovah,
Lindsay Ackerman