Super-size Me" meals; Hummers and Monster SUVs; Porno-spam ads for "Huge Hammers" - Americans seem to have a romance with BIGGER.  And that includes our egos, which seem to put our convictions at the center of Righteousness and our selves at the center of the Universe.  This is descriptive more than judgmental.  It's just how we are.

However.  Bigger does not equal more powerful.  Consider the deer tick or the mosquito, and their power to fell a human many times their size.  Or cancer cells.  Or the last snowflake that falls, or melts, to cause the avalanche.  Or the atoms that collide to create a bomb.  Or one teardrop of hope. 

Sometimes things that are very small contain enormous potential for explosive power.  Sometimes things that are quiet and diminutive have the power to move great rivers of compassion.

I think it is a good thing to take ourselves outside our normal assumptions and risk a different point of view.  I read yesterday that when you are circling in Earth's low orbit (which is not outer space), say 310 miles up, you see 16 sunsets a day.  Go sideways, 310 miles on the ground, and you see 1 sunset a day.  Go UP 310 miles, and you see 16. 

What other amazing but true things can we experience when we simply let ourselves, let our minds, move in this direction instead of that?

And, just for fun, consider these images: