As we begin a new month, I share with you some thoughts I have about releasing the past so we can move forward...baggage free. Recently a Zen story I first heard years ago from an amazing woman, Mary A. Tumpkin, my #foreverspiritualteacher, came to mind. Two monks were walking and came to a river where they saw a terrified young woman, afraid to cross. The older monk picked her up and carried her safely across. Since touching a woman was forbidden in their Order, this both