Many things can hide in plain sight. It can be very frustrating to look and look for something that has been right under my nose the whole time.
It can be both startling and unnerving when I can suddenly see magic in the natural world. By magic I mean something so incredibly rare and beautiful that it defies logic, and it is more incredible when it is found in unlikely places.
The truth is the beauty has always been there. It is my vision that has been too selective and narrow.
How can our vision miss these things? Why isn’t our vision wider and more encompassing?
When our velocity is moving too fast we can miss many things we pass without seeing. Also our minds have a tendency to discount and dismiss things we feel are unimportant. Our mind and our vision narrows down to one track as we race toward a goal. When we slow down and open our minds and our hearts, our vision can expand and have more depth. When this happens we are less likely to miss miracles that can hide in plain sight.
My goal this year is to search for all the talent that is hidden in our students that might have been missed in the past.