A Step Above

All life is an experiment.

The more experiments you make, the better

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting that feeling that the holidays are around the bend

               and the songs and the food, but most of all the stories

Some of my favorite Christmas stories come from the book

The Christmas Store

One of the stories is about a very buttoned up gentleman

who lives an very non-experimental life.

                                           By chance encounter with someone's planner

(he works in the Lost and Found department)

He finds himself prompted daily to try something new

Little things that are big stretches for him

(read it...you will like it)

I read it every year

then take pen in hand to write one new "adventure"

for each day in December

I have found

That the big changes come

when you are taking small steps along the way

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So...step out

                                                 Step it up

                                             And get a step ahead

and that's poetiquejustis

A person may plan his own journey,
    but the Lord directs his steps.

Proverbs 16:9

* images by Mary Engelbreit