{"id":637,"date":"2011-07-14T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T17:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/?p=637"},"modified":"2011-07-14T13:13:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T17:13:59","slug":"lessons-fly-past-you-at-45-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/07\/lessons-fly-past-you-at-45-mph.html","title":{"rendered":"Lessons FLY Past You at 45 MPH"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In THIS case, the lesson that might be flying past you is a Dragonfly.<\/p>\n

The dragonfly is capable of reaching speeds upwards of 45 miles per hour. Yes, that little thing.\u00a0 That prehistoric, perfectly aerodynamic shiney, little thing.\u00a0 And it achieves that kind of speed with pure efficiency and minimum of physical effort.\u00a0 A mere 30 flaps a minute holds this insect aloft while a mosquito requires about 600 flaps a minute to do what it does.<\/p>\n

Here’s another instructive aspect of the dragonfly of the dragonfly – it has the ability to move in all directions.\u00a0 It can hover.\u00a0 It can move forward, backward, up, down and this side to that.\u00a0 All with ease.\u00a0 Or, rather seeming ease.\u00a0 As a youngster, before I was able to launch into reading the biographies of great souls (that I loved so well) I spent a lot of time out of doors.\u00a0 And the natural world became my first set of teachers.\u00a0 It’s perfectly natural for me to take an day’s instruction from a dragonfly.\u00a0 If it’s new to you – I’ll share some of the inspirations I draw from the capacities of this insect.<\/p>\n

Even when I have a lot to do and have to achieve a lot in less than usual time, I don’t have to be in “a flap” about it.\u00a0 Just like the dragonfly, I can move quickly and still maintain my poise, focus and ease.\u00a0 Said another way – I don’t have to create drama around “having so much to do.”\u00a0 I can just do it and get it done!<\/p>\n

You’ve heard the phrase, “turn on a dime.”\u00a0 It references the capacity to adapt quickly.\u00a0 This primordial creature models the capacity for change.\u00a0 It could be lovingly called the Master Quick Change Artist.\u00a0 Years ago I wrote for a friend, “Just because you bought the ticket doesn’t mean you have to stay for the second act.”\u00a0 How many times does it happen that someone stays in an untenable circumstance because they have already invested so much into the effort?\u00a0 This is common in relationships, volunteer efforts, job capacities, even hobbies!\u00a0 The dragonfly demonstrates the gracious capacity to simply go another way.\u00a0 Without a lot of flap and fuss.<\/p>\n

Whoooooosh.\u00a0 There goes the dragonfly – leading me into more outstanding lessons from its long practice of beauty and power with grace.\u00a0 Will you keep your eyes open for what lessons might fly past you today?<\/p>\n

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.\u00a0 All is grace. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1984 –<\/p>\n

Beauty is everlasting\/ and dust is for a time. – Marianne Moore –<\/p>\n

Oh who can tell the range of joy \/ or set the bounds of beauty? – Sara Teasdale –<\/p>\n

Art should be Truth; and Truth unadorned, unsentimentalized, is Beauty. – Elizabeth Borton de Trevino –<\/p>\n

You have gathered the many powers, \/ you have clasped them now \/ Like necklaces unto your breast.\u00a0 – Enheduanna, 2350 BC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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