by Valerie Cerami

Created on: February 08, 2011

Take a walk, take a new look, take a new direction, take a new perspective:

A sidewalk crack

Only when we trip, do we realize the crack in the sidewalk we’ve been walking on.  Or is it a gaping whole?  Without ever looking down, how can we ever discover the shining mica in the pavement?  How can we get perspective on the road behind us without checking in on our hindsight?  

Can’t grasp at what’s ahead, or reach for that that’s gone, all we can do is center our gaze, in the palm of our hearts, and hold in our hand the wings of this moment.  Reach out to the now, openhanded, for it to will flutter away.

Balancing our selves around all that revolves, chasms and continues.  All we can do is stride, within the bird in our hand at this moment, the only one we truly have, sidestepping the distractions, and skipping over the cracks.

Only in mis-stepping can truly we re-steady, re-study, re-step and resume fully.

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