Counterweights: An Essential Practice for Holding Hope in a Heavy World

In life, there are moments that are terrible and moments that are sublime. Most of our lives fall somewhere in between-the ordinary hours crammed with small griefs and pops of joy. We move through the world with one fist full of possibility and the other clutching panic. It's easy to slip into the belief that the life we dream of is waiting somewhere past the daily grind. But this is our actual life; we only get to do it once. So much is out of our control-but not everything. What can we do...