Stepping stones

Why do we love stepping stones so much? For the past few years a short block away from my home in Montreal the commercial street becomes pedestrian. That’s already fabulous as other modes of transportation take over the urban space – kids on scooters, bikes, skateboards and walkers of all kinds including my elderly father. But my favourite spot is where they have installed a garden and interspersed little stepping stones- cut logs in fact. I celebrate by stepping from one to the next myself. Sometimes when I’m coming back from grocery shopping. And there is added joy of watching others experience similar enchantment from something so simple.