2021: Learning to Fly

“Don’t be the butterfly that dies in its chrysalis.”

I wrote the article noted below in May 2020, a couple of months after the official declaration of the Covid pandemic, when we were all thrown into an enforced contemplation of our lives:

In my interpretation, the adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, holding a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself, the ever-present set of opportunities at the boundaries of our reach. Ultimately, the strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them, which inspires continuous exploration to emerge what’s next. ~ A Flourishing Future is Held in the Seeds of the Adjacent Possible

We couldn’t go higher, so we had to go deeper.

Earlier that month, I had a conversation with a friend at her farm about the cycles of life. In January 2020, she & her husband had decided to buy a farmstead to create a new kind of life and the opportunity to do so came up much more quickly than they expected. They had to either stay in the ideation chrysalis or break out of it and start flying. They chose to fly and have a thriving farmstead to show for it. And, as we all now know, 2020 proved to be the perfect time for them to break out of the chrysalis and create their life-changing, food producing venture.