Beginnings Brew
A year, new
On the first day of 2025, a first Pausing for Ponderings post for you.
Plunging
New year, winter here.
Less warmth, less light, less color.
More twigs’ truths revealed.
January start.
More quiet, more quiescence.
More time by the hearth.
Today we begin
writing a new page again.
Letter by letter.
Letter, atom, cell.
Starting blocks, fundamental.
Small, consequential.
Kernel, ovum, sperm.
Power, promise, potential.
Starter tiny homes.
Today we commence
a new trip to center rose
in life’s labyrinth.
Inner outer trip.
No start, no end Mobius strip.
One is all is one.
Prayers
May we start and end
with good will and in good faith
every fresh new day.
May we start what heals, what helps.
May we stop what harms, what hurts.
May we pause to breathe, to rest.
Prompts
What is due to begin this year with a bow, with a vow?
How to bring a beginner’s mind and heart to this and that, now?
Does anything end with this given beginning? If so… what, who, where, why, how?
PS
Passage
(with warmer simmering spices)
Important, an unexpected beginning
What is due to begin this year with a bow, with a vow? A shredding of what does not serve
How to bring a beginner’s mind and heart to this and that, now? play joy, spontaneity and seeing simple things as if for the first time
Does anything end with this given beginning? If so… what, who, where, why, how? not ending but receding...the intrusive thoughts, the self doubt and guilt...