Bicyclists can make it easier for one another by allowing riders to follow closely behind in a practice called “drafting,” in which the person in front takes the brunt of the air resistance, giving an easier ride to the person behind.
How have you have you made an easier path for a person or people coming behind you?
Simplicity is a wonderful spiritual goal – to focus on the essentials, to treasure small things. But there is also beauty in complexity, whether it is the ornate shape and colors of a flower, or a life complicated by the intricate weaving of work, family, hobbies, care for others and care for self.
What do you love for its complexity?
Today people in the United States celebrate their country’s independence from English rule.
What do you celebrate gaining independence from?
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
―Mother Teresa
How will you create ripples of change today?
For a river rafter or kayaker, white water is the dangerous part of the river, the place that threatens to throw them overboard to hazards of bone-breaking rocks and even drowning. The white water, of course, is the whole reason they go out on the river to begin with.
What challenge is enlivening your life?
