Milestoned, Again

Yesterday was one of those days.  I imagine that most people can quickly sort their life to remember back the worst day in their life.  Personally, I can point to the day my dad passed away as the top of that list.  The second day would be the day my grandmother passed away.  Yesterday, that’s probably the third.

I’ll spare the gory details since it’s still not something I want to openly talk about - just a bit too personal at the moment.  In the meantime, I’ll simply channel something I said not too long ago (for my benefit more than anything else):

Beyond that, though, there’s something much more important. It’s the part that blurs into one big mess. It’s the stuff that keeps you from seeing the milestone in the first place. Those are the breadcrumbs. Walking down the road, that is life, it’s easy to squash those little crumbs into oblivion - forever ruining their usefulness. It’s only until we are aware that even those small steps are really powerful cues to our success and failure.

From “On Milestones and Breadcrumbs”