A highway in Rochester, NY

“Sometimes you only learn how to do it by screwing it up first,” I said, talking with my neighbor about DIY home improvement projects.

But maybe I wasn’t just talking about DIY home improvement projects.

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    Mj

    We make “failure” an end instead of part of the process. When children learn to walk (or do anything, for that matter), we don’t write them off the first time they stagger and fall. And yet somehow, when we are adults, a failed attempt marks the end of our potential in a particular area of life. How sad we can’t offer ourselves and each other the grace to stagger a bit as we try to grow.

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