Learning To Walk by David Whyte ..walked straight forward then, out of the gate, through the wood, along the river, toward the mountain and thought of the future I could make in the world if I walked toward it like this, with my face toward the hills and my eyes full of light and the earth sure and solid beneath me, walking on with a fierce anticipation, and a faithful expectation, with the sun and the rain and the wind on my skin and the old sense… of many paths breaking from one path. So learning to walk in morning light like this again, we’ll take that first step toward mortality, giving our selves away today by walking out of the garden, through the woods, along the river, toward the mountain, its simple, that’s what we’ll do, practicing as we go, and we’ll be glimpsed, traveling westward, no longer familiar, a following wave, greeted, as we were at our birth, as probable and slightly dangerous strangers, some wild risk about to break again on the world.