Your first baby shoes tossed out the year you got your first report card and new bigger wishes were made. I.e. More ripe than healthy. Now potential has cooled and passed on and you sip coffee in the morning, always strong and mostly black because sugar rots the teeth. All the better to power through another day two miles west of the target. Today you will sell 6% more than this day last year and soon you can buy the knee high leather boots that have been on your wish list for eleven years, temporarily jettisoned so far for retirement savings and emergencies and now a mortgage. That’s the amount of time it takes to go from seed to poet. You are still growing exponentially (sideways counts) but who’s looking. New targets grow in the eternal garden.