And I don’t know why I want to begin with and. 
Perhaps, it’s because my life is a conjunction, where I’m continually moving from and to persons, places, and things. 
Just like you, I’m always in the middle of something. 
 
Yet, and is tricky. 
One must be careful to avoid “this bad thing happened, and that led to this bad circumstance.” 
One might try to mediate their way out of that kind of and with long engagements with commas, em-dashes - semi-colons; and (parenthesis.)    
But that is precarious and can lead to stringing things out for too long. 
I think the answer is found by being careful with ands and taking time and patience to produce good ands.
 
Some ands that I have planned out have become successful, such as writing and revising.                                                                                                                                            
I think one of the coolest is “We met and fell in love.” 
And an and can be friendly and downright cute. 
How could pralines and cream exist without a nice and to bring them together? 
And what about the ampersand? 
How many symbols can look cool and bring clauses together at the same time? 
Hyphen, em-dash? They don’t come close. 
Where would we be without ands? 
The beginning? Nowhere to go? The end, plain, simple, uneventful? 
 
So, I guess my desire to start with and is my way of honoring the conjunction, for this ode is a continuation from all my writing before to all my writing to come. 
Pronouns, proper names and objects are wonderful places to begin, and I highly recommend them, and I wouldn’t be writing without them. 
But nothing would continue for anything or anybody without an and.