Caroline Starr Rose

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To Beginners and Ever-New Beginnings

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There is something beautiful and clarifying and terrifying all at once in being at the beginning… To be a beginner is to be full of hope-filled humility, to be overflowing with eager expectation that is simultaneously held in check by the obvious gap between your aspirations and current abilities. To be a beginner is to be pregnant with dreams but nascent with skill, and then to set about the work of cultivating the life of both.
— Michael Yankoski, The Sacred Year

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  1. Laura Shovan says

    January 1, 2016 at 9:09 am

    Happy 2016! I love this description, “Overflowing with eager expectation that is simultaneously held in check by the obvious gap between your aspirations and current abilities.”

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    • Caroline says

      January 1, 2016 at 9:39 am

      Yes! That’s every new manuscript, isn’t it?

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  2. Stephanie Farrow says

    January 1, 2016 at 12:26 pm

    ” pregnant with dreams but nascent with skill” Love that!

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    • Caroline Starr Rose says

      January 2, 2016 at 8:47 am

      Me too. Perhaps that’s why there are so many mistakes we have to make along the way. We’re still babies learning this new thing.

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  3. Yvette Couser says

    January 2, 2016 at 5:49 am

    Ah, I needed this…thank you for sharing. So much more positive than other “beginner” posts that I’ve been reading lately…those along the lines of a very aggressive, “If you haven’t started yet, why not? If it was important to you, you would have started already”

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  4. Yvette Couser says

    January 2, 2016 at 6:07 am

    Reposting….Everyone needs to read this!

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    • Caroline Starr Rose says

      January 2, 2016 at 8:48 am

      I love hearing this, Yvette. Happy New Year!

      Reply
  5. Elizabeth Varadan says

    January 2, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    Wonderful quote to start the new year. Thanks for the share.

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  6. Joanne Fritz says

    January 4, 2016 at 6:08 pm

    “Beautiful and clarifying and terrifying,” indeed! What a lovely, inspiring quote. Happy 2016, Caroline!

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