“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”                   

                                         – Al Bernstein

Often familiarity leads to stagnation.  Our senses become dulled, our awareness, diminished.  Begrudgingly we start down new paths almost as if being dragged when, I suspect, we are actually led.  Through exploration of “the new” we are intrigued, exhilarated, and enlightened and yet again truth, like peeling bells, reminds us that, that which we feared, we would not choose to go without for we are now more complete having absorbed the lesson.