(Video link here.)  Professional skydiver Erik Roner asked himself a question he’d wondered for a long time: what would happen if he sky-dived with an umbrella? Then he tried it, just to see what would happen. A man after our own improvisational hearts.

Question the “rule(s)”…

…ask “What would happen if…?

…and then TRY YOUR IDEA OUT!

Sometimes you break new ground, and sometimes you RE-discover what someone else already figured out, often years before…

Mary Poppins 2

 

…like the great Mary Poppins, still available here.

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