COURAGE

is a word that tempts us to think outwardly, to run bravely against opposing fire, to do something under besieging circumstance, and perhaps, above all, to be seen to do it in public, to show courage: to be celebrated in story, rewarded with medals, given the accolade. But a look at its linguistic origins is to look in a more interior... See more

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future.

deep privilege of belonging, and the way belonging affects us, shapes us and breaks our heart at a fundamental level.

Written in the early morning hours in Paris, after seeing amongst the strolling lovers and the map-holding tourists along the river Seine, a young, heavily pregnant woman walking alone, distressed and crying as she looked forward — into some distance she and the river, and the new life inside her, all flowed toward. Her image stayed with me even... See more