The trouble in Paris came a day after the torch made a difficult journey through a snowy London, where a protester managed to break through security and momentarily grip the torch.

The amazing part of Shonnetta's journey is that not only was she able to break a destructive cycle of poverty, but that she helped others how to do the same with an open and untarnished heart.

Especially with refactoring, when the objective is, in a sense, to stay in the same place, it is always possible to break the journey down into steps small enough to validate.