Vístanme despacio que estoy de afán.
Dress me slowly, I'm in a hurry.
(Loose interpretation - Do your best and carefully, even more so
when you're down to the wire and running out of time.)
Have you ever seen the circus act with the unicyclist crossing a tightrope hundreds of feet in the air? Silly hat on his head, balance pole in his hands, and rising precariously from his shoulders and stretching upward beyond the spotlight's reach, a human lattice-work of more acrobats in more silly hats. One missed cue, one miscalculation and spangles splattered across sand and sawdust. Thankfully, long before donning his silly hat and climbing to the high wire, the unicyclist rehearsed, exercised, sketched, studied, imagined, trained, prayed, and prepared, prepared, prepared.
Few of us who work in the arts and entertainment arena are privileged to work in a proper circus, yet we face long years of preparation and our own peculiar dangers. One of those dangers is when we're on a high wire and don't realise it. In my case, I fell off my high horse, landed a black-and-blue bruise to my conscience, and barely kept my silly hat. I learned something important about myself and about doing business though. It all began innocently enough...
