beginning

"Keep on beginning and failing.  Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."
Anne Sullivan (Helen Keller's teacher)

I am not well acquainted with early morning.  Most of my pictures are snapped through the late light of day.  I am more familiar with those angles and perspectives, but it seems fitting that a first blog entry should begin with this kind of image.  Getting started on any new project is most always the hardest  for me, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't start - it only means that I will procrastinate and then I will get past it.  I am a pilgrim looking to discover.  I often live on the edge of things and spend lots of time in my head.  I know a little about a lot of subjects.  Traveling in a straight line with goals is not the way my mind or spirit works...so I don't choose that path. Today I had a thought - it helps me to think of beginning and failing as necessary yet comfortable companions, and of a failing as a first draft...if failings are merely drafts, then any project is a process, an opportunity for discovery.  But before discovery occurs - trying must first take place.  You begin, you fail, you start over - again and again.  You will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose...and the best part, I think, is that you may land in a place you never planned to find - that you'll be glad to remember...running out to meet the morning and a first blog entry.