For regular note-takers, there’s a bright feeling that accompanies a new notebook. Clean pages. A fresh start. Opportunity.

The old notebook is filled and destined for a shelf. Perhaps it’s reviewed one last time. Perhaps not.

Meanwhile, the new notebook holds a sense of promise. What life will unfold within these pages? What lessons will be learned? What problems will be worked out? What feelings will be captured?

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In life, too, there are blank pages ahead. There may be many. But maybe not.

We can expect, however, that there are at least a few.

And those pages are ours to fill.

Ink to paper … what marks will you make?