We humans dream of flying, of soaring like hawks on outstretched arms. But mostly we hop, rather than soar. We launch ourselves up, and promptly come back to earth. Perhaps these tiny moments of flight are just as glorious as the unattainable soaring, if only for the fact that we can actually make them happen.
What small victory will you celebrate today?
We speak of things moving with glacial speed, the inch by inch pace of social change or changing a deeply-held habit. But while glaciers may not move rapidly, they reshape everything in their path as they go.
What slow process of change do you see in your life or the world around you?
Here’s a possibility. Maybe the day, your surroundings, the light and the air are simply glorious. And maybe you, yourself, are simply the most glorious thing in the whole fabulous situation. It just could be.
What in your life is glorious?
Whether the big bounce on the trampoline is exhilarating or scary depends on whether you are prepared or startled to find yourself suddenly aloft. Of course, life rarely gives us adequate warning before bouncing us into a new place. Which leaves us with the difficult task of trying to find the fun when we are already mid-air.
What helps you to roll with it when life flips your expectations?
From the vantage of a bird in flight, everything looks very different than it does here on the ground. Each individual person and tree and building looks smaller, and you lose a lot of the details that you can see head on. But from above it is also easier to see patterns, how the pieces relate to each other, how everything connects.
What do you do to get a bird’s eye view on complex problems?
