this makes me sad and this makes me happy, both on the same morning walk. somebody said yesterday with every step we fall forward and catch ourselves with the other foot and we progress that way, falling forward and catching ourselves. he remembered his daughter's first steps like the moment the apes discover a tool in 2001, a space odyssey. i heard that laurie anderson said that about walking/falling. now i'm told walking is balance. maybe when we begin walking we learn by falling forward and then voila, we're walking in balance. then when we get old we may lose our balance again. but i still like his metaphor for the human condition, ever out of balance, always seeking balance.