Photo:  Jeffrey Anderson from the performance of Flight, by Paula Josa-Jones and her company.  Paola Styron, dancer and aerialist with the stallion Capprichio ridden by Brandi Rivera.

Twelve years ago we adopted our daughter from Nepal.  Doing that was a leap of faith, requiring great steadiness of purpose.

During the seven weeks we spent battling American and Nepali bureaucracies, we hung prayer flags, poured rum into the belly of the Mahakala (on the advice of a lama) and sought the counsel of Tibetan Buddhist seers, who threw what is called a mo, and told us time and again that things would eventually work out.

We harnessed the windhorse – the bearer of prayers.  Which, in my experience, requires a certain kind of diligent daily yoga.  Again, you show up each day and begin again.  Take a daily leap of faith.

Little ones count.  That is the theme this week in The Journal.

How are you catching the windhorse?

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