Monday quote:
Your world is as big as you make it
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner
My wings pressing close to my sideBut I sighted the distant horizon
Where the sky-line encircled the sea
And I throbbed with a burning desire
To travel this immensityI battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease!”~ Georgia Douglas Johnson, Harlem Renaissance poet
from Share My World
Wow! Is that great, or what? 
I’m still working on the rapture, power, and ease part. Perhaps the secret lies in battering the cordons?
2 responses so far ↓
1 Paul young // Jun 7, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I guess to some of us it seems like the great beyond is calling us to rush headlong into the fields of what-ever.Sometimes we respond and like the poem we spread are wings and take a flight to what appears as our freedom and salvation only to find that what we really needed was always right in front of us.I believe the greatest adventure for mankind is God Himself,when weTake flight with Him we are in for the adventure of our lives.
2 Deanna Keahey // Jun 8, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Thanks for providing a different view. It’s certainly true that adventures come in many different forms, and don’t have to involve traveling anywhere. An adventure could be physical, mental, spiritual — not just climbing Mt. Everest or visiting Timbuktu.
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