beginning and beginning again

I often think about these lines I wrote with Julian Yates (which of us started the thought first, I have no idea: our collaboration is perfect that way):

The Book of Genesis keeps on beginning, an anthology of origins and initiations, of false starts, restarts, and continual starting over. Indeed, if Genesis teaches us anything, it is that origins are perilous and that it is very hard to remain started, to be said to have properly begun. Just as you get moving, just as you feel that you’re getting somewhere, everything you thought you had left behind comes back or turns out to have been with you all along.

That’s from Noah’s Arkive, where we also write “Every new beginning comes as someone else’s beginning’s end.”

I’m composing this post and starting writing at this platform at a time when beginnings, endings and returns are heavy to my mind. And if you’re wondering from where the title of this site derives, I used to keep a “secret” little blog of thoughts and images with that name, and in a small way am hoping to return to the project here.

Hello. Here is a relevant visual joke.