Cardinal calls me from the railing of the deck. “Turn your world red,” he says, insistent, beckoning. “Risk life outside your hard earned walls and windows. Cast aside caution, propriety, and your too small sense of what you can and cannot do.

Fly!

I tell you that the sky knows no constraints. All you are or can be comes clear in the near approach of clouds.

Fly!

That which you fear the most holds your deepest teaching. Let your spirit be the bridge between safety and release. Soar to the far end of what is known from dawn to twilight, then throw yourself at the whim of the wild night winds. Turn your world red, and
live with no regrets.

Fly!

And if you are blown off course, just change your destination. Choose to land wherever your two feet are standing.

Written by Danna Faulds, spoken on the mat by the beautiful Shannon.