first post ... let's do this

Yay!   First post!

Thought I should get this out of the way and see what it feels like to finally start posting my writing, since there always has to be a first step.  Once that imprint has been made, then the rest will come following, much like footprints in the sand ...

There is a beautiful quote by the poet Rumi, "As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears." 

The thing about a path in the sand is that it isn't seen in front of you, but is perfectly visible when you turn around.  Everything in life follows that same wandering, where the path becomes clear once the steps are all in place; but when you are facing forward, looking at the clean and untouched expanse of sand, you can step anywhere, create any sort of path you want.  Your pattern and trajectory only become clear once you pause and turn around to look at where you have been and what you have seen.

Kind of apropos that I should post my inaugural blog entry on April Fool's Day, symbolically represented by 'the Fool' in the tarot deck – a perfect example of blithely starting a new venture, with all the freshness and optimism of an early morning sunrise.

The Fool's journey has yet to be written, and there are any number of twists and turns to be encountered, yet the moment of beginning is the focus here.  The Fool is symbolic of getting past the initial hesitancy to create something new.  It's overcoming the fear of the blank page, or the clean canvas – and the fear is not just that you don't know what to create, it is equally about what you will not create.  It's the hair-trigger moment where you make your first move, and then what was once full of endless possibilities becomes distinctly itself, and nothing else.

The fear of the blank page isn't always that you don't know where to start, but that you also don't know what to leave out ... and what you don't say is just as important as what you do say.

So here's to making that first step, that first foolish gamble to try something new and see where it takes you ...  here's to placing your creations out into this world of ours: this beautiful, crazy place!