reversing direction on a narrow dirt road with steep dropoff

[nannah]

this is short... just sharing a perception. Yesterday I had the experience of twice having to reverse direction on a narrow dirt road with sharp dropoff on one side. The first time I did it, i was focused on the task, but when i had to do it again a few minutes later I was conscious of the process in a different way.

It hit me that I had completely reversed directions without going outside of the boudaries, by just going forward a bit, turning the wheel and reversing a bit. There was never a sweeping correction; it just took repetitive times of going backward and forward in a consistently correcting direction.

i have often believed that observable phenomena is useful because it gives us pictures of how things work. I felt like i saw Obama's task from a different perspective. I am passing it on. I have a strong desire to believe in President Obama; I am almost 67 and am tired of feeling cynical all the time. His daughters are the ages of my grandchildren. Surely their future is as important to him as the future of my beloved grandchildren is the me. and so i want to believe.