To begin

When I wrote my first blog page it was to jump into the fray of something new that I was interested in, get my feet wet, and explore a possible "Path with Heart".

After a few refinements and much thought about what I had written, I realized that what I had written was nothing less than my own personal manifesto on "Living Life" and what I have been going through recently. Interesting........."maybe I can continue this blog and expand upon what I have written?" Yes, it seems quite feasible but where to start, what to say?

After pondering for some time, I came to the conclusion that what I had written on that first blog page had somehow come from divine inspiration.
You see, I am not a writer.
I love to read.
I love words.
I am a thinker.
I love to think and words are the tools of thought. But words are also the tools of communication and I am an introvert. On top of that, being a man, my social conditioning has not been very conducive to speaking my thought much less my feelings.

I tried to write....I tried to beg, trick, cajole and force out the right thoughts and words, all to no avail. And so I have been awaiting my Muse...........which has been none too productive! Hmmm isn't this what got me into trouble in the past?......waiting around for something to happen? I need to take my own advise and just start doing! I am going to start posting on this blog weekly. It is time To begin.

Whatever you can do,
or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Throw Yourself Like Seed

Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit
sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
that brushes your heel as it turns going by,
the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.

Now you are only giving food to that final pain
which is slowly winding you in the nets of death,
but to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts
is the work; start then, turn to the work.

Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,
don't turn your face for that would be to turn it to death,
and do not let the past weigh down your motion.

Leave what's alive in the furrow, what's dead in yourself,
for life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds;
from your work you will be able one day to gather yourself.

~ Miguel De Unamuno ~