We didn’t get to choose where and when we were born, or to whom. We didn’t get to choose our upbringing, or if or how we get traumatized. We didn’t choose to experience a pandemic or the death of loved ones or the loss of a job or any number of circumstances we find ourselves in. We did, however, and do get to choose how we face these challenges. We get to choose how we show up, how we allow, how we receive, how we engage, and how we love. We can choose to respond from fear, anxiety, doubt, and distress—and that’s okay. Or we can choose to respond from love, strength, certainty, and power—and that’s also okay. One of these choices hurts less than the other.
We made it through a turbulent year, after many turbulent years prior and many still to come. That’s life. Our choice is always how we show up for it. We have heartaches and growing pains and all kinds of suffering. And we have romance and skill-building and all kinds of enjoyment. One of these hurts less than the other.
2021 is the second year of the Soaring ’20s. Even when it hurts, we choose romance. We choose skill-building. We choose enjoyment, We choose empowerment. We choose life. We choose love. Come fly with us, won’t you? You deserve it! 
Happy New Year to everyone, everywhere! 
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Love the positivity… As an essential worker who has lost a grandmother I can use all I can get. Love the show!
Thanks,
Allen Jackson
Dear Fly Brother,
I watched your program for the first time today. I found it fascinating and important, especially listening to the community members talk about their cultures and how all cultures are woven into the beautiful tapestry of humanity. Yet, inspiring as they are, I am troubled by a common occurrence I see on all western television; the Puritanism of the human body. I find it audacious that you travel to these remote communities on the globe, to bring we western viewers the reality of people and places we would not normally meet, then blur the natural beauty of their bodies, not to respect them, but to hide their natural body parts from our stupidly sensitive eyes. Your program then becomes more about us than about them. For years I have gone to western museums and marveled how curators went to such trouble to remove the genitalia of statues so as not to offend our Judaeo-Christian sensibilities – more precisely our absurdity.