A Ferris wheel gives you almost no freedom in your ride. You just go around in a big circle. But it turns out you can see amazing things from that big circle—as you can within the limited, but very large, cycles of the seasons and of birth and death.
What circles or cycles do you see yourself moving within?
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
—Nelson Mandela
How do you enhance the freedom of others?
Sometimes what we think is restricting us is just an illusion, and we are actually free to slip through the bars to freedom.
What false limitation are you prepared to give up?
These days, pretty much anywhere you go somebody’s eyes are watching you. Which adds to our security, but subtracts from our privacy and freedom.
What are you willing to give up in the way of privacy and freedom for the sake of security? What is going too far?
“Freedom. It isn’t once, to walk out
under the Milky Way, feeling the rivers
of light, the fields of dark—
freedom is daily, prose-bound, routine
remembering. Putting together inch by inch
the starry worlds. From all the lost collections.”
―Adrienne Rich
How do you find freedom in reclaiming history or memory?
