Bridging the Gap

As we await the arrival of our baby (could be any day now), we are enjoying all the extra time we have as a result of clearing our schedules in anticipation. Today, for instance, we took a nice long walk in the woods behind campus. The leaves have become too limp to crunch anymore, but that's just as well, since fall is long gone and the woods now have that peaceful spring-will-soon-be-here feeling.

This bridge helped us over a small trickling stream, and I couldn't help but think about how one or two small steps can be the difference between this side and that side, between the familiar and the unknown. Today it was just a stream, but one day soon it will be fatherhood. Here we go.