The best time to begin

The best time to begin is now.

“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better.”  - Annie Dillard

But, but, but....

No, no "buts"...now is the time. My time. Your time. Our time. The world's time. When life circumstances conspire to hold us back and rob the hours from our days, then the hell with it, let's begin anyway...if not always on the canvas or the page then in our thoughts, our dreams, in the quiet moments of washing the dishes and falling to sleep. Begin in imagination. Reality will follow, just as soon as it can. As above, so below; as below, so above.

As Hillel the Elder famously said: "If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?"

Pictures above: At the edge of Elizabeth-Jane Baldry's Pigwiggen Wood,  four Faery Godmothers lead the way.