your daily rock : keep looking up!

 

A famous astronomer once said “Keep looking up!” to Emma, during the time when she wanted to be an astronomer when she got older.

It’s good advice for all of us.

Oprah once did a series of shows in which she granted the “wildest dreams” of women from her audience. At the end of the series, she quietly said that what bothered her about the whole process was how small those wildest dreams were—we need to dream bigger for ourselves, she said.

I wonder why we settle for less than star dust? Is it that we believe ourselves not worthy? Are we afraid of falling from such a great height? Don’t we know that the universe will catch us? Can’t we see that the view on the way down will be spectacular?

I wonder as I ponder Emma’s trajectory: what rainbow have I clutched? And you? Have you been too earth bound, too small, too contained in your wildest dreams?

Keep looking up, wherever “up” is to you.

And while you’re at it, look for ways to help teenagers keep looking up too. They need us to peel back the clouds and enlarge the night sky for them.

Love,

 

 

 

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.