by Laura | The Year of Living Courageously
When we think of bravery, we key on firefighters streaming water onto the Waldo Canyon fire, or activists facing down troops in Syria, or reporters risking death in Egypt by reporting on elections. We cite acts by people we don’t know, people who have done something...
by Laura | The Year of Living Courageously
I met Humbert Humbert this week. Those of you who know I have an Ivy league master’s in literature might be pardoned for wondering why I’d never met him before. Who knows? I’m sure it was my fault; I can’t blame the institutions of higher learning that awarded me...
by Laura | The Year of Living Courageously
Since I decided to blog about courage in its myriad forms, it seems like people everywhere are talking about eschewing fear or having more courage. A friend of mine’s New Year’s resolution was “No fear!” and the columnist Maria Hinojosa wrote a stirring essay about...
by Laura | Blog, The Year of Living Courageously
Mary Oliver is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet. She captures nature’s small, intimate happenings and lets herself—and the reader—be astonished over and over again by the mundane but glorious moments. I discovered her work several months ago and have been devouring the...
by Laura | Blog, The Year of Living Courageously
For those of you who didn’t check in last week, we’re discussing Felicity Aston’s solo crossing of Antarctica. To me, the bravest thing about Aston’s journey was her willingness to be on her own for so long. The lack of connectivity with other humans must have been...