Learning to Soar.

I once stood at the edge of a very high cliff and thought, “I wonder if birds experience the same?”

Meaning, I wonder if they suffer from the same sense of nervousness – that fear of stepping off into the unknown.

Does their stomach flip as they contemplate the leap? Or, are they far too transfixed by the possibility of freedom?

Do they dream over the currents beneath their wings long before they’ve ever learned to fly?

Perhaps, there is something to be learned, my loves from these, our ‘fearless explorers’?

“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves,” shares poet, Mary Oliver. “Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”

Though, all to often, we barter our moments against the promise of ‘another day.’

Meanwhile, those who do not hesitate – soar.

About

Tara Lemieux is a mindful wanderer, and faithful stargazer. Although she often appears to be listening with great care, rest assured she is most certainly‘forever lost in thought. She is an ardent explorer and lover of finding things previously undiscovered or at the very least mostly not-uncovered.

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