Aug
15
New Beginnings

Everybody is sending their kid off to school today and seeing their photos on Facebook takes me back to my own school days.

I so loved the day of school clothes shopping in Chicago with my friend, Robin.  Her mom and mine would sit in the front seat talking and she and I would be in the back talking about boys and the Beetles and all the important stuff that life offered then.

Now, though I knew early in life I didn’t want children of my own, I still look forward to this time of the year.  I set new goals for the rest of the year, I launch into reading a new book and I even sneak into the school supply aisle at the local store to buy a symbolic new notebook.  Those clean, fresh pages are inspiring and will soon be filled with the next chapter in the story of my life.

I realize though, that we can start again in any moment.  Who really gets to decide the measurement of time but us?  We all have the same amount of it, but we spend it so very differently.  New goals and new ideas and new places and new people await us.  It’s time to open up to all life has for us.

What new beginning will you start this week?

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  • Veda

    I have a huge box of 96 crayons a friend gave me, the kind with silver and gold and all those shades of colors. I open the top and smell the crayons and am transported to other days in my life.
    When my oldest son was a baby, I was in a dime store, and I smelled the crayons and thought someday I’ll get some for him. And when I was in school and only had the box of 24, I would smell the fresh box, and it was heavenly. it smelled of learning and creativity.