Begin anywhere.

"Dive into life, embrace the unknown, dare to live." - etching on one of my favorite bookmarks. It has become one of my personal mantras.

And so. I dive right into this blog again. I'm not going to go into a huge update of where I'm at right now; I'd rather my life unfold through the "pages" of this blog. I title this entry "Begin anywhere" (John Cage) because it was on one of those quote cards that I gave to my roommate Alaina earlier in the year and it really resonates with me. I have been constantly beginning everywhere this year. Emotionally, spiritually, mentally, physically.

In celebration of life and the spirit of beginnings, I'd like to share more words that have spoken to me. These are from Eileen Myles' novel memoir "Inferno." She is a poet and so talks about writing poetry. Replace her "poems" with "Lara's blog" and I've got a good explanation for why I'm reactivating this pursuit.

"Absolutely all events and moments are, if not spun into writing, are charged wildly anyhow, set free to sail along strands of teeny infinitesimal jangling power lines."

"What I started to understand was that the poem was made out of time - past, present, and future. It lives in the present, it breathes there and that's how you let anyone in. I think people can feel this accessing of time in poetry very readily. As soon as the poem ceases to be about anything, when it even stops saving things, stops being such a damn collector, it becomes an invite to the only refuge which is the impossible moment of being alive."

"Poetry is just the performance of it. These little things, whether I write them or not. That's the score. The thing of great value is you. Where you are glowing and fading, while you live."