The pathway of compassion is traveled one step at a time. This seems trite the moment you hear it, but much like a recovery model begs you to understand we can only work on today, the fostering and nurturing of compassion within is firmly rooted to the now. The thing is (that is to say the secret of it is), we can transmute that now into always, we can one step, two step, foxtrot our way along a continuum which transcends time and space. Figuratively of course, but there is still something in the notion that we might apply our grace retrospectively – in order to find compassion for the past, as well as our present. Continue reading →