Beginnings are always interesting, the ultimate in uncharted territory, the conception of an idea that will hopefully flourish, like a seedling given nourishment and light.

That beginning, that idea, starts a journey, perhaps short, perhaps long, but somewhere we’ve never been before… or maybe somewhere we’d forgotten about… a journey with twists and turns, highs and lows, successes, failures, achievements, disappointments, love and loss, contentment and rage, happiness and sorrow, triumph and tragedy,  life and death… and maybe even redemption.

And so even as I write these words, my mind wanders and I can’t wait for the next idea, the next beginning, wondering where it will lead me, what I will think and who I will inhabit, where will they go and what will they do.

I’ll write these words and more, and if I’m lucky, I might eventually make enough sense to publish something. But until then there are at least a dozen or more ideas, concepts and beginnings. Some will fly, some will fall, but all are of value to a writer.

So this is my journey, to write as I live, taking each day as it comes and never taking anything for granted. Remember…

‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present’

– Oogway, ‘Kung Fu Panda’