When my daughter showed me a video of her visit to the Institute of Contemporary Art, where she walked through the air on gymnastics rings suspended by ropes from the ceiling, I said, “I want to do that!”

She had made it all the way through the jungle of rings, from one end of the installation to the other, without touching the ground. While she warned me that it took a lot of upper body strength, I was pretty sure I could make it, too. Not!