The ladyslipper orchid uses its elaborate shape to trap bugs and ensure that they brush past the flower’s pollinating organs on their way out—not harming the bugs, but making sure that the flower gets what it needs.
How do you structure your life to help yourself get what you need from others?
In addition to having keen eyesight, hearing and sense of smell, cats are endowed with whiskers that give them an exquisitely sensitive sense of touch. We humans, lacking whiskers, have to find other ways of tracking tiny changes in our environment.
What practices help to keep you in touch with what is going on around you?
A rock might not be the most comfortable place to settle in for a nap, but it’s working for this sea lion.
How have you managed to get comfortable in a situation that seemed forbidding?
“Real dishes break. That’s how you know they’re real.”
―Marty Rubin
When has the fracturing of something in your life made you feel more real?
A sea sponge is a collection of tiny little organisms that together make up what we know as a sponge, a whole that is larger than the sum of its parts.
What do you belong to that makes you feel that you a part of something that is bigger than yourself?
