"We all need space to wonder and take flight in".

It is essential to take space to wonder and to take flight. Our lives are so compounded with duties, timelines and momentum - we forget the power of adventure and the vitality of exploration.

Wondering is an innate human movement and it is vital to allow our bodies to fall into patterns of discovery and flow. Travelling through life means protecting what is unknown, wild, playful and buoyant. In our initiation with adulthood, we hide our need for wonder and seek out duty, seriousness and forget the significance of our dreams. Yet, dreams are a calling to expand, to explore and to embrace our full potential.

Wonder is a pure thing - born in all of us. Much like wild horses in a field or birds singing in the sky - the body holds great wisdom and intuition - that is often entirely wordless. Our instinct for travel and for movement is intrinsic. It lives inside of us all - inviting us to honor and respond to it.

When we starve ourselves of movement , wonder and adventure - we do not tend to our deepest needs. Instead, we abandon something entirely natural and repress our creativity, our need for regeneration, expansion and growth. Wondering may feel irresponsible or child-like for some, but it ought to be an ordinary and un-exceptional sensation.

A friend of mine spent three years walking south of Germany barefoot. This act of pilgrimage and faith was a homage to his own need for freedom, expansion and wonder. With little to repress or contain his true nature - such as work, time commitments and fixed communities - he fed his need for expansion, and for freedom outside of judgement and convention.

Now - it may not be necessary or possible for all to take such an act of wondering. Yet, this gesture does capture and instruct our essential need to tend to freedom and to feed the act of wondering. Our daily lives can all be etched in small acts of play and adventure. Placing flowers on our table, preparing a beautiful meal, telling someone we care about that we love them and appreciate them.

Wondering can look like a hike in a local forest, a visit to the library or archive. To be in wonder is to cultivate an intrinsic curiosity within the world and to nurture our own fascination with all that it is to be within this extraordinary body. Small gestures are just as powerful. Essentially, we all need space to wonder and take flight in. The magnitude is only relative. As long as we nurture the act of wonder, we tend to our true natures.