Taking First Steps
Taking First Steps Photography by Yang Miao My year-old grandson took his first solo steps this week. My son sent me the video. The child is standing and leaning on the couch next to his mother’s legs. The father is standing by a door and calls, “Come here, Buddy. Come here”. The toddler laughs, turns, and suddenly starts walking towards his father. He makes 6 or 7 steps before he falls and is scooped up by a beaming Dad. Children don’t plan to start walking. Plans are great but they won’t get us walking. We learn by starting. We take that first step. Across the decades of my life, I have been many things: a one-room school teacher; a pineapple picker; an actress, a children’s …