Greetings Moxie enthusiasts! Today I am conducting a good old fashioned inquiry into Moxie.
- I put together an ETSY treasury to inspire me. (Formatting constraints do not allow me to show you as designed.. Please head over to my ETSY page to see it as it was intended.)
 Amelia Earhart Cut Paper Por… $100.00
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 Retro Silver Airplane Neckla… $22.00
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 Scarlet Autumn -bright bold … $30.00
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 Mae West woodburned art $44.90
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 Well Behaved Women Bracelet-… $56.00
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 XXS to 3X, 50s Style Swing D… $85.00
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 Vento – Print of original Pi… $6.00
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 Life Takes Grit Print in Bla… $14.00
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 The Little Sharpshooter 8.5x… $15.00
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 Bold Story- Original Large A… $250.00
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 Copper necklace with picture… $35.00
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 Antique Sex Cure bottle-Ambe… $52.00
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 24×36 CUSTOM Bold Red Modern… $175.00
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 Little Amelia (Earhart) gicl… $30.00
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 Sojourner Truth A Extreme Pr… $9.00
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 Kick-Ass $30.00
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Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.
- I am researching people who have displayed Moxie and I will read the book “Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them” by Katherine Martin I will find inspiring quotes about courage and daring and share them on our facebook page and with people in my life to inspire us to be more daring! If you know of a story I should know about then please let me know!
Where would you go looking for moxie?
What do you think I should try? Will you join me?
Do you remember a time in your life when Moxie was really present for you? What was it like, what were the characteristics and what were the things you did? I can’t wait to hear what you have to say!
I look within.
p.s. That print is absolutely amazing!!!!!
“I look within.” Thank you Yoda! (Damn you are smart my friend! That one stopped me in my tracks!) Much musing to follow!
My Moxie moment was when I let out a furious, blood curdling yell when a bunch of doctors was doing something VERY painful. I had been sort of told to be very polite to the “nice” plastic surgeons who were doing me a favor and removing my central line (IV straight into an central blood supply in my chest). When they couldn’t get it out with a tug, they cut into my chest without anesthetic and all gathered around and peered into the hole. At that moment, I just HAD it. The incision hurt, but at that point I was just SO tired of being pricked and poked and prodded and treated like a science experiment, and sitting there with no shirt on and my chest bleeding profusely made me so angry. I felt exposed and mistreated. So I just started yelling furiously. It worked- the doctors (all seven males) jumped away, shuffled out, and a much KINDER doctor ran into my room and swept me into surgery to properly remove the line, which actually took a lot of work because it was embedded in tissue.
It waas sort of an a-ha moment because I had always been sort of taught I was at the mercy of the doctors. The truth is, I wasn’t. From that point on I took a much different approach to my medical care AND my life, and it changed everything for me.
As far as women with Moxie- there are two women I admire because of their adventures: Misti Little (http://oceanicwilderness.com) and Eliana Ardila (http://marcandeliana.com) – both women left everything (homes, jobs, possessions) to take historical and life-changing journeys around the country- Misti by hiking, and Eliana by traveling in a vitange VW bus.