Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱I live in the city and all around my home new buildings are being constructed. Walking one morning, I stopped to watch a crane in action. What I saw was elegance and purpose at work, and it was exquisite. What does a building site crane have to do with elegance and purpose? As I watched the crane, I got to feel how it works: slow, purposeful, unhurried, and focussed. It lifted large heavy items, gently and precisely placing them where they needed to go. This to me was beauty in motion. It was very easy to feel how different this picture would be if the driver was in a hurry, distracted, rushing to get something done, tired, tense or even trying too hard… this would be seen, felt and magnified in every movement of the crane, immediately. Instead of seeing elegance and purpose at work, I would have been watching something rough and even dangerous. Because of its sheer size, a crane cannot help but magnify the quality in which the driver operates it. I found myself imagining how uncomfortable it would be to see something that large working in a zippy, rushing way, yet ...