courage
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“Let it be what you can’t yet imagine and wouldn’t orchestrate even if you could.” We heard Cheryl Strayed say that a moment ago, speaking as online advice columnist “Sugar” to someone angsting about the potential imperfections of her upcoming wedding. “There’s a day in July that’s a shimmering slice of your mysterious destiny. All…
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“It is in the small things we see it,” says Anne Sexton in her poem entitled “Courage”: The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. The first spanking when your heart went on a journey all alone. When they called you crybaby or…