Small Steps
Every journey begins with a single step. Robert Maurer, physician and faculty member at UCLA, told me that I would never look at that saying the same way again. I listened to him for an hour. He was right. I had to love a man who acknowledged, right at the beginning, that change is scary. Apparently, small steps can disarm the brain's fear response. Once free from fright, the brain is able to create. It was a new concept for me, the notion of moving beyond the fear. I rarely get past the change is scary part. Just ask anyone who's told me that I should write a book. The look of horror on my face has caused more than one loving friend to step back a pace or two. One of the blessings of lying on Douglas as my hip healed was the opportunity to think without having to act. There were no expectations of me beyond growing bone. There was little enough I could do to speed that process along, and there was noth...