Yesterday, on our way to Decatur, Rocio and I walked the recently-opened, yet-to-be-christened, first 2.5-mile stretch of the new, 22-mile pedestrian/bicyclist beltway that will ultimately circle central Atlanta. The trail truly is “hot off the press,” and locals already love it. Though still under construction, art is already making its way to the trail. Less then half a mile in, Rocio & I found a white ribbon exhibit. Scores of white ribbons are tied across a line of tall, narrow bamboo posts, firmly planted into the dirt. The ribbons hold peoples’ personal thoughts, ideas, ambitions, favorite quotations, names of loved ones, and more.  Blank ribbons, sharpie pens, and a wooden plank to write your choice of words on a ribbon sit aside the exhibit. Rocio & I filled out our respective ribbons and tied them to the exhibit. We met a family of others who were doing the same. Their sixth-grade daughter wrote a beautiful quotation onto hers, a quotation which is also a personal favorite that I use repeatedly in conversations across the miles: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”

Shoot for the moon!