New beginnings are always a great time! I am constantly in awe of the resoluteness one needs for the closing of the door behind to walk slowly but assuredly away from one’s comfort. And then how soon it can be followed by the exhilaration and anticipation of new worlds to be found in the opening of the doors ahead.
This is where I find myself. Wanting… Maybe even needing… to enter a new unexplored world. Yet I still enjoy and find fulfillment and rest in the world in which I presently reside.
Living simultaneously in two worlds… It can’t last forever… But while it does, I will enjoy the ride.
I love new beginnings! From a blank page to the start of a new season or the dawn of a new year, I love the endless possibilities…have a blessed New Year!
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Thanks… I look forward to reading your pieces.
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Great post. I feel that leaving one’s comfort zone is the path to illumination. To travel is always better than to arrive.
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Thanks for reading!
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There is a tone of double-play in the last part of your narrative… the living simultaneously in two words.. Intriguing.
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Thanks. That double-play is exactly what I feel… Having two passions… overlapping, yet competing for the same 24 hours.
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The double-play is what grabbed me also. Simplicity in a fresh start but the complexity in competing for time – decisions! Priorities! Which way to turn!
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To enjoying the ride! Great post!
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I’m a new fan Roger Shipp! Very inspiring words in your introduction. I look forward to following you through your writing adventure!
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Thanks for stopping i!
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I like to explore my new worlds in books. Then there’s lots of new beginnings.
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New Beginnings are great!
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It’s funny. Re-reading this now I have a different take. I’ve been repairing an old house that I once lived in. I find I want to preserve the old as much as possible while still going for the new. It’s like I’m trying to keep as many doors open for as long as I can.
Thanks for dropping by my blog and reading Suzie’s House.
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I long for adventures… the kind you find in new beginnings. For a long time, I believed I needed a new beginning in a new country. I spent months (years, actually!) researching the places I’d like to call home. Eventually I did an about-turn and realised that the country where I live is actually pretty cool (Portugal – I’ve lived here since I was ten). So, perhaps the new beginning I long for is just a new home? So now we’re hoping to build our dream home here! Such is life, right?
Namaste 🙂
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Welcome Home.
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Thanks!! 😀
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As the song goes, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Is that relevant? Maybe?
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Every great book needs a Part II. The secret is for Part II to measure up?
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Now this is quite interesting that you are finding this a good feeling to be one foot in the new and one in the old…Bridges calls this times of chaos but you seem comfortable not quite letting go and exploring the new:)
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It is much more relaxing to explore the “new” while having a”home base” where one is very comfortable!
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Yes, the home base keeps one grounded for sure.
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Blank pages are my favorite beginnings, but there’s nothing quite like an ending, at least when it comes to writing!
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Beautiful piece. I’m visiting in from A to Z Blogging challenge. Are you participating in that?
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Yes, I have enjoyed it very much so far! You will have to stop back in and read some. I am doing the back stories of famous paintings. “Alternative Aspirations of Picasso”
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Nice place to start. First steps, right?
Thanks for stopping by at
The Mane Point: A Haven for Horse Lovers . Hope you will visit again.
BTW, driving a horse means hitching the horse to a cart or wagon or sleigh and having him pull it.
And the long hairs on horses’ hooves are called feathered fetlocks.
Now your life is complete – with those answers. Right? 😉
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Good to know!
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That black sedan is a bit worrying. Long may we have rainbows.
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Very intriguing post! I think it is important to try new things on one hand but staying within a certain comfort zone on the other.
Roger, I have nominated you for the challenge, “Allergic to E.” I hope you will accept the challenge. For more information, please read my post.
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Great About piece! I’ll go poke around now.
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You are welcome to extend your visit!
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Endings and new beginnings are always something to put us into a “out of comfort zone.” I wish it was not that way. Change is always happening to most. I remember the years that people had jobs for 30+ years, not now! With all my job skills and BA DEGREE I am over qualified. Go figure.
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I have had an equivalent job- not in the same buildings- for that long… Soon I will be making those steps… I just continue to practice walking forward.
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“. . . closing of the door behind to walk slowly but assuredly away from one’s comfort. And then how soon it can be followed by the exhilaration and anticipation of new worlds to be found in the opening of the doors ahead.” This is exactly how I have felt at nine different times in my life when I’ve left a place I’ve been to experience an entirely new life. I’m wondering now if I’ll ever do it again.
http://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/09/13/democracy/
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“Living simultaneously in two worlds…” It’s a beautiful phrasing of the dilemma we sometimes find ourselves in. Not wholly in one world or the other, we stand at the line that divides both. I’m sure that when you choose the door to open, it will be the best choice, with the sweetest rewards!
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Thanks so much for the read and your encouragement.
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New beginnings?! Hmm… I really haven’t had many new beginnings – but i have tasted them – and i believe new beginnings are what make you truly alive. But then most of the times you need lots of guts to shut the doors behind and walk towards the new doors, new beginnings.
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Nice piece. But since you wrote this back in Oct. 2014, I’m wondering what new paths you’ve adventured onto.
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Still living with a foot in both… but the yearning for spending more time with writing is stronger….
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I’m new to your blog. One foot in writing and one foot in what else?
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I teach 7th grade… junior high… for 35 years… still love it…
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Great for you!!! We need teachers who love their job and help raise up our future.
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Thank you.
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Good luck for your new journey! Going out of the comfort zone when all is well in the current state is not easy – but it will surely be rewarding.
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Well said. Too many fear change and new pursuits… you sound like you are embracing something exciting and new!
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Thanks, check back often.
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as you know, nothing lasts forerver. you’re so right in thinking that the best thing we can do is enjoy the ride. 🙂
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New beginnings, and living in two worlds, I think is what every writer can identify with. Good post!
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Thank you so much for words of encouragement. It is nice to know I am not alone with these ‘new’ and ‘unknown” apprehensions.
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Roger, if you have taught junior high for 35 years. I think I might look for your name on the Bull Riding circuit in future rodeos coming up. Have a good one, best wishes, keep on writing.
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It has been a whirl-wind… but good in almost every aspect.
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I enjoyed reading you, this was a nice piece as well as the flash fiction story of fridayfictonairees. Glad you stubled upon my little story.
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Thanks for the visit.
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I have found that each new sun is new beginning ….. often bringing in adventures that i have tried my best to avoid. 🙂
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Great story. Well written. I enjoyed it. 🙂
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Great thoughts on new beginnings!
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That is a striking image and writing piece!
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New beginnings create another hope for us to live in the path we desire. It’s good to walk away from one’s comfort zone so the we can broaden our horizon. Great Post! I look forward to reading more of your posts.
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Happy to have your here!!!
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I am glad to have you here, too.
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This heartfelt post reminds me of one of my favorite lyrics from my dave artist Sara Bareilles. Her song ‘December’ says: “To get yourself a new life you have to give the other one away.”
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As of now… I still am allowed both worlds. I hope I can for another year or two?
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I think you can stay as long as you want. 😉
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I can’t help but think of Robert Frost’s, “The Road Not Taken.” I’ve always found it to be a haunting poem…certainly not as uplifting as most people seem to find it. Here, too, I think you have that same sense of loss and potential…new beginnings are both a celebration and lamentation.
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Sometimes it’s quite a relief
To be free
From that annoying ‘What if?’ 🙂
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Yes….
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Oh, I would love to start again – that’s what would be so brilliant about having a 200 year lifespan, (I read somewhere that technically this is possible) you could try out several lives! ~Liz http://www.lizbrownleepoet.com
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Hi Roger, hope you are OK 🙂
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Thanks for asking. Summer has been rough, Dad (90+) has had difficulties and I am processing the publishing of my entire classroom of Seventh grade in Scholastic type magazines. I have had little time for anything else. I am on the final two weeks! I think that I will make deadline. It has been a passive project. Over 800 entries! But so far, everyone who has seen it has liked it??? I hope it is effective. I can’t wait to get back to writing for myself!!!
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That’s a lot to handle for sure! Take care 🙂
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http://dishdessert.wordpress.com
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Good luck on your adventure..we find having a couple of worlds quite fun – Jae and Alice 😉
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Thanks!
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I loved this little blog post! It is perfect! Taking on 2017 with renewed spirit, here, too! 🙂 ❤
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Since you are such a great friend of mine, I am inviting you to write a guest piece on my blog.
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Wow. What an honor. I will get back to you on this. Thank you.
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Ok
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It is a perspective that few dwell upon though most of us live in two worlds if not more.
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Beginning can be scary sometimes. Usually, when a change is coming for me, I feel like something inside is waiting to be born.
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New beginnings both make me scared but woefully expectant! I hope your new beginnings are full of adventure and positivity! 😇
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I’ve always loved new beginnings as well and have jumped off into many of them. I am finding it harder to do so now, however, and wish I had the nerve to make one more giant leap into the unknown.
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So many worlds so little time
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.. the knowing when to let go, revise, refine, that is the hard part. eco !
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