“It all began the day I found that from my window I could only see a piece of sky.” This is one of the first lyric lines from the song A Piece of Sky from the musical Yentl, and a song that’s meaningful to me as I think about the impact travel has had in my life. The more I thought about it, the more it dawned on me that travel was engrained into my DNA long before I was born.
Over the last few days I’ve been thinking about my Greek Mythology class from my time as an undergraduate student at the University of Winnipeg. In part, because one of the myths we studied centered around Demeter and Persephone, and how the ancient world understood the changing of seasons from Fall into Winter, and then from Winter into Spring.
In recent posts, I’ve written about why we focus on deficit fixing, the power of changing the narrative to focus on our strengths, and the cycle of both endings and beginnings that many of us are experiencing at the moment. Intricately weaved into all of these topics is how we understand, navigate and respond to failure. Yes, I’ve said it – the “F” word.