Loose Ends: Still moving forward

“Still standing — twice,” the mother of an almost-1 year old reported recently. The grandmother inquires regularly as to his latest accomplishments and is used to the mother reporting all sorts of changes that mark his passage from infancy to childhood. She has become accustomed to his continual motion, so suddenly she finds it bewildering to hear that he had stopped moving forward.
“What do you mean?” she asks.
This particular baby had already breezed…