Your Journey

I love to take photos of pathways, of stairs... to me it symbolizes the journey we are on. Always moving forward, always climbing. Each time we place one foot in front of the other is a glorious moment.

I have a photo in my shop with this quote: "Take the First step, no more, no less, and the next will be revealed" -- Ken Roberts. And I chose that quote because it mirrors everything I believe in.

I know someone who's always 'scared'. Always just on the verge of a panic attack-- any time there's a thought that he may have to move out of his comfort zone. There are times, plenty of times, that I am scared when doing something new. However, I don't listen to that voice, instead, I just begin. And more often than not, I'm thrilled at the result. Or at the very least, my curiosities have been answered and I've veered off onto another path. A path that I would not have found had I not taken that first step.

For Mother's Day one year, my oldest son memorized and recited my favorite poem to me. Let me share it with you here:

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveller, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference...

Robert Frost

What an amazing Mother's Day present it was! Those words touch me. I hope they lend to your day as well.