Get Your Feet Wet

Art: Mark Collins
https://markcollinsfineart.com/

Life requires us to get our feet wet. It’s

an ongoing process, like it or not, of

trying something new and deciding

what it makes of us:

First steps

First words

Peas

At some point, a first kiss.

It’s an aspect of living. Actually, I think

it’s the difference between living and

living a life. 

So, what does one make of a box turtle

standing in a big puddle left by days of rain?

Certainly, you can conclude, she knows that

she was designed to be a terrestrial thing.

There are at least twenty-five years of

this understanding inscribed on her back.

So, is it possible that she’s simply getting

her feet wet? Maybe she wanted to try on

what it’s like to be a pond turtle? Maybe

a duck? An otter, perhaps.

Good for her, I think.

And, I also think, wouldn’t it be nice to

imagine that tomorrow she tries out

something else totally new to her?

Wild.

I think she will.

(c) 2019/Jamie K. Reaser
From a book collaboration in progress with artist Mark Collins

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