“Piece by piece I fell far from the tree
I will never leave her like you left me
And she will never have to wonder her worth
Because unlike you I’m going to put her first”
Tag: courage
Day 200: TBT – Brains, Courage, and Heart (1939)
Give yourself five minutes to silence your cynicism and lose yourself in the indelible scene when the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and (always my favorite) the Tin Man, finally believing they possess what they carried within themselves all along.
Sometimes, all we need is simple affirmation.
Day 176: “A Thousand Words…”
I had one of those weekends when I had a lot of thoughts tumbling around inside my head, but I wasn’t able to bring any of them together into anything resembling a cohesive whole. Rather than write a truly rambling blog entry today, I’m going to share a photo I found on just_simplysam’s Instagram feed (and which I think really is worth a thousand words) instead.
Day 156: Words, Words, Words – Mary Anne Radmacher (n.d.)
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'”
Take a Look: “Just a Normal Guy”
From People magazine via Yahoo! News: “Last fall, for the first time in 14 years, Patrick Hardison was just another face in the crowd. ‘The day I got out of the hospital, I needed a few things, so I went to Macy’s,’ Hardison, 42, tells PEOPLE exclusively. ‘I could tell the difference right then. Nobody was staring, nobody was saying anything. I was just there.’ It may sound like an everyday errand run, but for Hardison, that shopping trip in October 2015 was the moment he began to reclaim his life. Having lived with a disfigured visage since he suffered severe burns in a 2001 accident, the volunteer firefighter underwent a groundbreaking and risky procedure last year — the first extensive face transplant in the world — to save his vision and return to some sense of normalcy. Indeed, ‘Now I’m just a normal guy,’ Hardison says. ‘There’s no staring, there’s no kids running off crying — that means everything.’”
Read the full story at People magazine via Yahoo! News.
Day 104: ICHSIB – Sarah Williams (1868)
– from “The Old Astronomer” –
Day 27: ICHSIB – Stephen Sondheim (1970)
– from “Being Alive” / Company –
Day 21: “Travelin’ Through” – Dolly Parton (2006)
“God made me for a reason, and nothing is in vain.
Redemption comes in many shapes, with many kinds of pain.”
Day 13: ICHSIB – Winona Ryder (2016) and Miranda Lambert (2016)
– Winona Ryder, from an interview in New York magazine –
– Miranda Lambert, from an interview in Billboard magazine –
Day 7: “Brave” – Sara Bareilles (2013)
“Show me how big your brave is…”