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Love this prompt. Reminds me of the book Ender’s Game, where youth live and train on a space ship. When it is time to go anywhere - dinner, training, a meeting with their leaders - a trail of light-up dots on the floor would lead the way to your destination. Each team had a dot trail color.

I remember thinking, Sure wish I had a trail of dots lighting my way to the next thing!

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Need to add that to my reading list, thanks!

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I'm enjoying the debate in my head: is it a cautionary sign-"good luck, you're on your own, no one will come to your aid"? Or is it an encouraging sign-"oh brave heart, courageous and true, you will bushwhack yourself to a wondrous place and the world will be astounded"? Is it Dorothy's warning, or is it Frost's invitation? Thank you, Julie. I'm having fun with this one.

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Love these questions, Shannan!

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Hmmm, but what of all those people we laud as “trailblazers”?

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Sounds like a great question to journal about....

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Interesting. Prompted many thoughts about the trails we take knowingly and often unknowingly.

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I always giggle at those kinds of signs on trials.

"Do not walk here"

Never thought about them in the way you just presented, but I like it! Thanks, Julie!

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Thanks for reading!

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And the billboard that said "BE KIND" . . .

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Always a good reminder

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I like that addition to the prompt—the trails we take unknowingly.

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