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Everything is possible again

Browsing in Borders earlier, I came across Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book on his journey in vegetarianism. He writes that on the birth of his son, a friend commented that “everything is possible again”.

While this quote is not attributable to Foer, it nonetheless speaks powerfully to me of hope – hope that with a new beginning the slate is wiped clean, and a new journey begins; a marker that the past is left behind.

Ah. Maybe a little too sentimental, then.

Staying, going

My house says to me, “Do not leave me, for here dwells your past.”
And the road says to me, “Come and follow me, for I am your future.”
And I say to both my house and the road, “I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things.”

-Sand and Foam, a poem by Gibran Khalil Gibran