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Stranger Things
Are happening every day
I’m stepping off the edge of a steep cliff, you can picture it as being straight out of a Roadrunner cartoon. Somewhere miles below, a spike of ground blasts skyward to stop right under where my foot was about to meet thin air. Then another one and another. Again today, we will master the insane art of walking through the air with no idea for sure that the next footfall of solid ground will be there. But we step with varying degrees of confidence off the edges of our personal steep cliffs every morning.
With our huge, pattern-seeking brains constantly scanning our surroundings, we humans are endlessly hungry. We desperately seek security, continuity, and solid ground even as we’re deliberately waltzing off the edge of nearly every cliff that presents itself to us.
I think we can all agree, however, that this cliff jumping business is getting scarier. The cliffs are steeper and the certainty of that foot-sized bit of ground landing right where we’re about to step is getting mighty iffy.
