life is a balancing act

EMERSON SAID that “unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” That’s what this video, part of a larger project for “National Geographic,” says to me. Dare! That, and this: We are tiny, and nature is vast. (Details of the project on the jump.)

This sequence was part of a bigger project called “The Man Who Can Fly,” produced by Bryan Smith. If I’m reading their program schedule right, the full show will next air January 20th, 2013. It recently surfaced on Bryan Smith’s Vimeo page, and a friend shouted it out from there to me.

Dare! (Like by writing a wild and crazy garden book, and sending it out into the universe–which is what I did this week!)

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WANT A COPY of “The Backyard Parables,” my latest feat of daring, in which nature in all her vastness, is the other main character besides me and Jack the Demon Cat? It’s here:

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