One Small Step

One Small Step

The distance between here and there is one small step. Tread carefully. There's many a slip.

This is my entry for My First Constest, hosted by DeniseWorisch

Thanks to all the stock providers, tutorials, and DeniseWorisch, for hosting.

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Stock Resources:

Spirit and Recumbent Figure: trough the Water, by Meggane, Photographer: Meggy Fischer, Model: Lilly ylliny.deviantart.com/

Guide: Nightingale - Stock Pose Reference 11, by faestock

Background, Moon, and Other Resources:

More Cliff Stock 164, by The-strawberry-tree

Cut-out stock PNG 104 - majestic crow, by Momotte2stocks

Wave Clear, by MindSabotage

FOG/CLOUDS PNG, by Moonglowlilly

misc cloud smoke element png, by dbszabo1

sea rock png 1, by Irisustockimages

sea rock png 7, by Irisustockimages

Stock - Moon, by wachowicz

Dove 1.6, by mocking-turtle-stock

Stars Stock PNG, by FrostBo

Big Lens And Optical Flare Collection, by daWIIZ

Lens Flare Pack, by daWIIZ

Wolf Guide: Far away, by Meggane

Tutorial:

Manip Academy #12: Creating a night sky scene, by adoreluna

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Memo:

Do not look for me.

I am not there. I do not sleep.

I am in the small star that shines at night.

I am in the stories, whenever they are remembered;

And, wherever they are told. I am still all that I was.

Only one small step, out of reach-

-Paraphrased from "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep," a poem written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye.

Notes:

Although the origin of the poem was disputed until late in her life, Mary Frye's authorship was confirmed in 1998 after research by Abigail Van Buren.^[1]

There's many a slip, from the old proverb.

In The Iliad, Odyssey, and tales of The  Argonauts, three heroes offer toasts, boasting that they’ve surivived and eluded fate, only to slip and fall, before the end of the story.

 -Cat…