Tramping is a straying from the obvious, even the crookedest road is sometimes too straight.*
Stephen Graham

We are not born to succeed at every turn. We are born to try—to dream, to imagine, to strive and to take risks. We are hardwired to practise failing.**
Bernadette Jiwa

Magic does not result from
a flick of the wrist or
some incantational utterance; magic is
the child of turning up in places others
ignore, continuing when others go home, failing
to the embarrassment of others, being super
hungry to learn before
failing again, and knowing that
just as the universe found a way,
So will you.

When the universe makes you wonder,
all is as it should be.^

*Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places;
**Bernadette Jiwa’s blog Briefly: On Risking Failure;
^Cirque de Soleil’s Varekai, from AleXander McManus’ Blue Moments.