If you’re a duck, you might feel that the elegant black swan is looking down at you from his regal height. Then again, if you’re the black swan, you might imagine that the duck is quacking at you behind your back about odd red nose.
What do you do when you imagine that others are judging you?
When the world outside threatens, the snail always has the option of retreating into its shell, tucking itself away from danger. But it needs to stretch out its neck if it’s going to travel or eat or mate or have any kind of a life.
What draws you out of your place of protection into deeper engagement with the world?
There is always rhythm present if you care to notice – in the tapping of keys on the keyboard, in the slap of shoes on the sidewalk, in the rustle of leaves or the hum of insects or the whir of an oscillating fan.
If rhythm is always present in life, how will you find ways to dance along?
Although this man appears to be entirely solitary on his walk by the beach, he is accompanied not only by the unseen bugs, birds and other wildlife that are always present, but also by the people, living and dead, who are with him in his thoughts.
Who walks unseen with you today?
“The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.”
— Thomas Berry
How does connection with nature make you more deeply human?
