Viewed from directly beneath, St. Louis’s famous arch takes on an entirely different, almost unrecognizable shape. The facts of the world look distinctly different to those who are on the bottom than those who are on the top.
How have you been able to shift your perspective to see things from the point of view of someone with a very different set of life experiences than yours?
Through the peculiarities of history, May Day has become both a celebration of spring and fertility and an honoring of the struggle for workers’ rights. Not two things one would ordinarily put together, but it is true enough that there is creative power and growth in struggle.
What new understanding of justice is growing for you?
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
What have you gained through having the freedom to mess up?
Wild horses aren’t, properly speaking, wild. They are feral animals, once domesticated, but now living free in nature. It turns out that for both horses and humans there are benefits and down sides to living a domesticated life.
In what way do you wish your life were more wild?
The saying goes that everyone is free to their own opinion, but not to their own facts. The modern world of social media makes it easy to share and debate opinions. It also makes it easy to share “facts” that simply have no basis in reality.
When have you allowed your opinions to lead you astray from researching the facts?
