New Year...New Road

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, 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 marked 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.

This poem marks a new beginning, reinvention, and a multitude of other adjectives that describe a new chapter in my creative life. We all choose the roads that we take in life and I am choosing to take one that is less traveled. I think back on what has occurred and wonder if I would have taken other roads knowing what I know now. I can honestly say that I would not have changed the most important direction my life took, which is the one that led to the birth of my son. He gives my life joy, direction and inspiration.  To celebrate this. my goal for the year is contentment.

"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want."  Philippians 4:12, New International Version