I’m on the path &
for the first time
I feel, the right one.
And I have been all
along but didn’t
know it.
I’m not sayin’ it
was all perfect,
but I could be in
much worse places
than I am now.

Shore Pine trees and path at Seal Rock, Oregon
If you’re heading in
the right direction
but are just part
way there,
it’s much better
than going in the
wrong direction
and being all the
way there,
wherever “there” is
–a place you
probably don’t
want to be.
It’s a long trek
back, I tell my
students, I see
heading in an
undesirable
direction.
Sometimes they
see the point of
what I’m getting at,
so it was worth a
try to reach them.
Photograph © Dennis Frates Photography http://www.fratesphoto.com/