“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is something beautiful that is always with you?
Breaking Free
We tend to think of moments of liberation as dramatic—tearing down the Berlin wall, the end of Apartheid, escaping from an abusive relationship in the dark of night. But all those dramatic moments of change started with something much smaller. A sense of possibility. A meeting to plan an action. The radical idea that things could be different.
What small impulse toward freedom or change do you see at work in yourself or in the larger world?
Freedom to Err
“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
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?
Freedom of Opinion
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?