View from the North 40: Perspective changes everything, but it's not the only answer

“Everything in life is a matter of perspective,” that’s one of my favorite quotes from myself — though, to be fair to humans of the world, I hardly think the phrase is unique to me. Still, it is one of my few, and simple, guiding principles for life.

You just have to look at things the right way to see and understand them more clearly, or even just to feel better.

Sometimes that act of seeing, that just-right perspective, is both literal and figurative. Like a horse I saw in a video recently. That horse, head held high, was galloping along in the narrow gap between two trains moving, at speed,...