When You Get Blown Off the Path

One foot in front of the other works until it doesn't

Does it look like my wrist is at a really weird angle? It is. Photo by author.

Only one thing was real, more real to me now than the past that we lost for the future we didn't have: if I put one foot in front of another, the path would move me forward and a strip of dirt, often no more than a foot wide, had become home. — The Salt Path, Raynor Winn

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