Are you familiar with cairns, those stacks of balanced stones you often see on the beaches in California? These stone sculptures, used to mark paths, burial sites, energy vortices, or simply as a mark of reverence, have always fascinated me. How do they get those stones to stand on top of each other in such precarious ways? How do you achieve something grounded and stable with such tenuous connections? I can’t help think about balance, when I see them. They remind me that balance is a tenuous thing, indeed, and in order to maintain it in our lives, we must be mindful about how we stack our stones. Seeing these cairns on a beach recently inspired this post, since I’m pretty sure the quest for a balance is a nearly universal struggle for us modern Pinkies.