A quick search of the word “balance” gives this definition: “a state of equilibrium where forces are equal and opposed, resulting in stability”. 

The interesting thing is that those opposing forces could be feathers butted up against one another or loaded dump trucks ramming one another with the same, but opposite, force.  Either way results in, what looks like, “balance”,  but they feel very different.

These past few weeks, after returning from a writing conference, battling a cold, my...