entering the portal to unlimited possibility

New Year's Day seems special because, depending upon how you look at it, the day symbolizes a new beginning--the dawning of a new year. A time to begin whatever you have been putting off...or to start over again if your last attempt didn't work out as you had hoped.



Perhaps this is the year you will start the novel, or the memoir, or the poem you've always wanted to write...

"Fill your page with

the breathings of your heart."

~William Wordsworth~

...or perhaps you'll pull out a moldering manuscript and give it another try. Maybe you'll sign up for the art or photography class you've been aching to take...or get back to your sketch book and start drawing again. Maybe this will be the year you join a gym...or take to the woods again.

Hopefully, this is the year you will silence the voices in your head that tell you nothing is going to change.

"I can't believe it's been a year

since I didn't become a better person."

~Attribution unknown~

Soon they'll have you believing that, like every other year in the past, you simply will not find time to write, or draw, or compose. You will not get around to clearing some space so you can dance, or indulging yourself with new paints--whatever it is you long to begin. You'll fall back on all the old excuses. You're too busy at work. The kids have too much going on. You have more important things to do--folding the laundry, keeping up with your friends on social media, solving the problems of war, poverty and world hunger.

The question is: Who are you going to listen to? The voice of reason or the pleadings of your heart?



Who will you follow? The lumbering ogre of restraint trudging along the same well-worn path...



~www.poweramoure.com~

...or will you test your wings and let them carry you off to the place where dreams come true?

~Weehawken Creative Arts~

Does the arrival of New Years Day simply mean that another year has gone down the drain? Or is it a portal to possibility that is limited only by one's imagination and courage and passion?

What will you begin this year?

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"Begin doing what you want to do now.

We are not living in eternity.

We have only this moment,

sparkling like a star in our hand--

and melting like a snowflake."

~Sir Francis Bacon~

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Happy New Day...

jan