The DAILY SPARK Blog

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

See Screech Owl hidden in hole made by Pileated Woodpecker in a Sycamore tree Quiet Water's Park

Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.  Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Roald Dahl,  THE MINPINS

REFLECTION:

  • What are you not seeing?
  • Is there something hidden in an unlikely place?
  • What if you could  embrace magic and see the world with glittering eyes.  Try it.  What do you see?

AGAINST THE WIND

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Quote by Henry Ford
 

REFLECTION:

  • What winds are you fighting against?
  • How can you embrace this as a lift off?

THINKING YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.  It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who ever had been alive.  Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people. “

Quote by James Baldwin from  an article titled “Doom And Glory Of Knowing Who You Are” by Jane Howard in LIFE Magazine May 24th, 1963

REFLECTION:

  • What open wounds do you need to face?  What open wounds do we as a society need to face?
  • What can you learn and apply from history?