Tricky Things- Legs

[poliphilo]

I took Fabrizio out the back to kick a ball around. He was up for that, but even more interested in the big stone step between our yard and the path that runs along the back of the houses. He could get up it by himself- no problem- but getting down again was a challenge- and he had to hold my hand or he'd have fallen flat on his face. So what is the secret? What do you have to do with your legs to get safely from A (up here) to B (down there)? We practised the manoeuvre over and over and over.

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[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I addressed the faith question above. I think of it as the child who is taking his or her first steps is still learning how to make those calculations.:) (Which goes back to the beginner mind discussion above.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Here's something else that happened yesterday. We were walking down the back yard and Fabrizio halted in from of a large clump of grass and wouldn't go past it. He didn't know what it was, whether it was animate or inanimate, friend or foe- he just saw it came up to his waist and that it had blades- and decided he wasn't taking any risks.