Holly B.F. Warren Atelierista Artist Mind Wanderer Writer Optimist

The Sextant’s Pivot: Navigating by What is Left to Fill the Hole of Wrong.

In the geography of wholeness, we are often told to follow a compass that only points toward Right. We treat Wrong like a cliff’s edge a place of finality, a wreckage to be abandoned.
But a compass only works on solid ground. On the shifting seas of experience, we need a sextant a tool that measures the angle between the horizon of our mistakes and the stars that still shine. True wholeness is not a pristine state; it is the active work of filling the hole left by our errors with the substance of what remains. It is the realization that the very gap created by being Wrong is the space where our future begins to take shape.
The Myth of the Right
We spend our lives chasing the Right. The right word, the right partner, the right turn. It is a sunlit path, but it is rigid. When we stand only in the Right, we fear the void. We believe that to stumble is to create a hole that can never be mended, a puncture in the fabric of our lives.
The Grace of the Left: Filling the Void
In this philosophy, Left is the material of restoration. When the Right path vanishes, you pull out your sextant and look at what remains. You do not ignore the hole; you inhabit it.
When you find yourself deep in the woods of a mistake, you look at what is left to find your wholeness:
The Leftovers of the Self: The scrap of courage that survived the embarrassment.
The Residual Light: The lesson that only glows once the Right way has been extinguished.
The Remaining Breath: The air that fills the lungs, and by extension, the hole.
To go Left is to gather the crumbs of a shattered Right and realize they are exactly the shape needed to fill the hole in your heart.
The Geometry of Revealed Steps
Imagine the hole left by being wrong as a vessel. As you pour in what is left—your resilience, your honesty, your raw survival—the vessel overflows. It is this overflow that points the way. You do not find your next step by looking for a map; you find it by watching where your wholeness spills out.
The state of being Wrong means standing in the hollow of a choice and identifying the void.
The state of being Left means pouring in what remains of you to fill the hole.
The state of Movement means stepping where the fullness leads as the next step is revealed.
The Poetic Turn
Being Right is a destination, but being Left is the alchemy of wholeness.
Next time you lose your way, don’t look back at the Right you missed. Instead, lift your sextant to the sky and then look down at the gap at your feet. Take everything that is left—the grit, the grief, and the grace—and pack it into that empty space.
As the hole fills, the ground beneath you will become solid once more. You won’t have to wonder where to go; the weight of your own presence will tilt you toward your next horizon. You aren’t just moving on; you are moving forward because you are finally heavy with the truth of who you are.