No matter how well you prepare yourself for heavy lifting, sometimes your grip will slip. Or you will underestimate your stamina. Or a stair will be three inches shorter than the rest of the flight, and you will stumble unexpectedly - because all stumbles come unexpectedly - and you will lose your balance.

And in that moment you will need to stop. Right away. Because to continue on would be unsafe.

In the pause before the push, we ground ourselves. In the pause before the push, we found ourselves. In the pause before the push, we let ourselves stretch, grow, become a whole planet.