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Solutions 21 Weekly Insights
If you can only read one thing this week...
The airborne spider
by Rob Salome | Posted on December 13th, 2017
Spiders are some of the most courageous paratroopers in the world.
As a paratrooper in the Army most of my career, 63 of my best friends and I would routinely jump out of planes, rapidly assemble in the dead of night, and move on to do the Nation’s bidding.
I remember one of those jumps vividly. One night, as we all sat awaiting the drop zone, I looked down to my reserve parachute on my chest to notice a small spider nestled into a fold in the fabric. Not a big deal, I had already checked the reserve. This gal was just along for the ride. And an interesting one at that since I was about to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
As I think about that spider, this was less of a big deal to her than it was for me. She takes a leap of faith every night. In fact, her life depends on it. Spiders oftentimes rebuild their web every night. The first step in that process is for the spider to attach the first strand of her web to an anchor point, then leap, and let the wind blow her to the next anchor point, where she can then continue the process of building the web. She has a clear vision of where she’s going with the night’s project. The first step is the leap, then a certain dependence the wind is favorable and will get her to the next point, and finally, staying focused on the vision.
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