she runs now...a funny, full speed ahead run...usually towards something hard and/or pointy so there is that all at once emotional mix of wow! look at her go and eek! look where she's going...but she manages...to keep her balance...to somehow stop just in time...to turn and look back with that silly, glowing smile and it is in that moment that i realize that life, it seems, is running the same way...funny, full speed ahead and all i could do is keep my balance...and my smile.