Baby Steps

Continuation of a walk 

through life seems obvious. 

After all each child is 

born to do just that. 

How we teach our children 

to walk is important. 

And when we have grown 

past our adolescent years and try 

to balance our tentative adult steps, 

we will want to fly like the geese in the fall, 

or race like a thoroughbred to ‘get there’ 

with spirits indestructible and brave.

And so we are and can continue to be throughout 

our lives no matter the heaving and buckling of the road

as long as we remember the baby steps of our youth.

“Perhaps it was not a destination I sought but merely a continuation.”

~ Ocean Vuong,  On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous