Skinned Knee

A Poem by Pete

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin! - Thoreau

Training wheels don't work: Balance bikes teach children how to ride.

Photograph by stockbyte

it's not until the training wheels finally come off that you discover how far you can actually go ...

© 2020 Pete

Author's Note

"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality." - Thoreau

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Added on December 27, 2020
Last Updated on December 28, 2020

Author

Pete

Boston, MA

About

I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..