It can feel good to clean up, to purge. It’s an important first step towards a new direction, but only that. I try to use the momentum of feeling good to propel myself to new territory. Even if getting back into a habit of old, it’s still a new time, a new place.

I wonder if the same occurs at the species level, within the ebbs and flows of our civilizations. It seems we too feast off momentum and positivity, and that we can also lapse into bad habits. Is it time to clean up and generate new positive momentum?