So it caused quite as stir by the time I was done but it had the desired effect and was what was needed. You see it occurred to me that we were getting caught in a trap of being too short sided a sort of recency bias –giving too much credit to the most recent experience, that we began to believe that the way things are is the way that they will always be. So I got up and drew a line around the room at about three feet from the floor and parallel to it. I drew the horizon around the room to remind us that there is always something more out there, that there is always more on the way. We need the horizon in our lives to give us a place for the Calvary to come to our aid, to frame the sunrise and sunset and to remind us that there is always more out there, always something new on the way. Take up a marker and draw your horizon, it’s not the end of your world but the beginning of discovering it.
Your moment of Zen
