When you spread your wings a bit, the light shines through...

Yesterday I had an evening meeting for class, so took the ferry into the city at around 3 so I could meet my daughter for dinner.  This lovely cormorant was sunning herself on the pilings as we pulled into the Seattle dock; don't you just love the way the afternoon sun ignites her wings? (or his, as the case may be...)

We had a lovely time at a pho restaurant near her apartment; I ordered a platter of do-it-yourself rice paper roll makings -- fresh cilantro, basil, delicious chicken, vermicelli, sliced carrots, nuts and a wonderful peanut plum dipping sauce.  I loved the way the crisp circles of rice paper softened in the water, then became sheer and stretched to wrap around all the tasty ingredients...


The meeting, too, was delightful; a pleasant opportunity to imagine ways of introducing people to the idea of a more fluid environment, where leadership emerges and fades according to events and circumstances.  And we held the meeting in the same way: loose, relaxed, inviting, not controlling; open, like these magnificent wings.  Plus we managed to finish in the allotted time and accomplish exactly what we had hoped to accomplish.  Amazing how efficient things can be when cooperation rather than hierarchy is the rule...