I went to a book club meeting this week, in this club we all take turns hosting, so found myself in someone’s comfortable living room with friends learning more about the author of the month. We offer a virtual option for the meetings, an advantage that the pandemic created in that we all know how to use it now and can meet from Florida colleges or with the sniffles. In order to get the presenter on camera better the operator of the virtual platform suggested moving a table closer, this was one of the formidable, plank coffee tables that just looked like 400 pounds of four hefty square wooden legs. Three of us jumped up to help try to move the heavy load. However, it was an optical illusion, some genius had installed castors well out of view underneath and the illusion was that the solid foundational pillars actually hovered a few millimeters off the floor. A toddler could move this table it rolled with perfect ease. Another reminder that often things seem completely solid, un-moveable, too heavy, too hard, but in the trying and the first gentle nudge we can sometimes find that we were not seeing the challenge for what it was. We were looking at it and quickly making a judgement. The first thing to do in a big change is make one change, one first step and sometimes, not always, you find the invisible castors that make the next few steps roll smoothly into place and you can move on to the next 400-pound challenge.
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