Changing and challenging perspective

The view from my friend and host’s loft in Brooklyn a few hours ago, just after sunrise on a cold and crisp 4c / 39f degree morning.

The inspiring view has me musing today on the power of changing and challenging your perspective.

I just spent a week in Cayman and yesterday morning the temperature was 30c / 88f and this was the view out to my host’s garden.

In addition to the view out to the bright sun and lush tropical garden, an element that is not captured in the contrast between Cayman and Brooklyn is auditory.

That house and garden in Cayman are totally tranquil. The loft in Brooklyn is quite literally under the Manhattan Bridge, and subway trains rattle across every few minutes at high volume. Takes some getting used to and certainly a change in perspective.

One morning apart, totally different views, climates, sound levels. Rarely ever have I felt such a radical and sudden shift in perspective.

I have a clear day today and had initially planned to go into Manhattan and go around central park, yet as I write this, my sense is to stay in the loft and this surrounding area and adjust…