Welcome to the Blog Party! This week we are talking Courage This means we are looking for everything and anything on the topic! How to find it ,why you need it, what it means to have it… literally Everything and Anything on the topic are all welcome. I’m going to start things off by directing you to three Read More
My youngest son loves rock climbing-loves it! The call of the mountains lured him in during a season of tree planting. During those few months he discovered that his being wanted to be outdoors working but not tree planting. He ultimately discovered that the mountains were the lure and rock faces to be climbed Read More
“Courage is the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action.” The word ‘courage’ stems from the Latin word ‘cor’ – which means heart. And it’s true, courage is a state of the heart. Here are some courageous concepts you Read More
I decided to do something a little different for this week’s blog post. Since I wrote about courage back in January, I thought I’d crowdsource what courage meant to my friends. To be fair, everyone who responded has faced CDH just like my family. Some responses came from a survivor’s perspective while others came from Read More
I always assumed that when a caterpillar made its metamorphosis into a butterfly, it went through a fairly straightforward transformation. I thought the caterpillar made its cocoon, crawled inside, and while it slept, its wings grew and body elongated and then when all that was done, the new butterfly cracked through the cocoon and Read More
My son looks fierce in the photo above. He happens to be one of the most intense people I know. He also happens to be one of the sweetest and most sensitive. He possesses an interesting combination of bravado and softness that amazes me daily. Like many of us, for a time, he wanted Read More