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I'm Martha Beck.

All right.

We're going to talk about flying today, and I really mean it,

how to fly. But before I talk to you about flying, I have to talk a little bit about falling.

There is something I learned sitting on the forest floor in California, covered in birdseed,

meditating for a few years, not the entire time, but large portions of the time.

And that is that when songbirds land, they don't always come swooping in for landing,

they'd get right above me, and then I would see them just kind of make a decision,

and their wings would just go straight up and go still and they would just fly they

would drop they would fall straight onto me and they're so tiny little songbirds they weigh like a fifth

of an ounce they weigh a few um millimeters no milligrams and they would so they'd land very softly but

they were just falling. And I realized that

flight is just a, like, continued fall. Just like walking is a continuous fall forward, which we

catch with our forward leg over and over and over. So really, we're all kind of falling forward all the time,

whether we're birds or whether we're people. And I tend to run with people, and maybe y'all

are like this, and I think you probably are, I tend to hang out with people who do a lot of falling,

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