Posts Tagged ‘courage|quest-magazine-2015-03’

Arianna Huffington, the noted author and popular pundit, wrote a book entitled On Becoming Fearless. In it, she observed that too many women and girls today are afraid to be themselves.

Perhaps you remember the story about Antoinette Tuff. She’s the woman in Atlanta, Georgia, who was working in the main office of an elementary school when a man burst in with an automatic rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition. Everyone got out, thanks to her.

One of the things I miss most about home is having a comfortable place to sit. It isn’t something most people think about, but over time, it becomes more and more important.

In theory, courage is a good thing. One of the best things.

The older I get, the crankier I am about fear. My own fear, other people’s fear. I can see back across decades to all of the times when I have stood moving my lips soundlessly like the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz while some disembodied voice thundered, “QUIET!”

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” —T. S. Eliot

That you can join a lively conversation on the theme of this issue in a Facebook group?

When things fall apart and we can’t get the pieces back together, when we lose something dear to us, when the whole thing is just not working…