the tightrope life stretches from beginning to end and the learning takes place when we fall…. as we travel along we become enthralled and forget to watch where we are going…….but the slips are necessary trips…….a time for adjustment and correction…… we again mount the wire continuing on until the next misstep sends us reeling………….the first few falls annoys us and we miss the opportunity to learn off the wire………..but it doesn’t take long to understand……..and often we step off on on our volition because we need to…recognizing that it is not the sum total of our experiences that shape us…………..rather what we take time to understand…………………….quality always trumps quantity