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Wendell Minor's art is on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum through May 26, 2014 and offers many heroic figures who exemplify courage: Sitting Bull, Amelia Earhart, Thoreau, Rachel Carson, Buzz Aldrin and Abraham Lincoln to name a few.
After hearing Mr.Minor speak in one of his gallery talks at the museum, I asked him his definition of courage.
'To have courage is to cut against the grain of conventional thinking. Courage is believing in what you believe in, and sticking to it. Referring to himself as a "recovering dyslexic," he said, 'Sticking to something, and not relenting, is a philosophy I embraced for making art.'***
Recently I came across this article by Jeannette Armstrong from the Okanagan people, who speaks about beginning with courage to co-operate as a community.
To the Okanagan People, as to all peoples practicing bio-regionally self-sufficient economies, the knowledge that the total community must be engaged in order to attain sustainability is the result of a natural process of survival. The practical aspects of willing teamwork within a whole-community system clearly emerged from experience delineated by necessity. However, the word cooperation is insufficient to describe the organic nature by which members continue to cultivate the principles basic to care-taking one another and other life forms, well beyond necessity....
Jeannette Armstrong in ecoliteracy.org*********
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." --J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter fans mobilize around real-world problems...
Andrew Slack, a teacher who organized the Harry Potter Alliance wrote:
"Imagine people working to end global warming, racism, and genocide
as energetically as they flock to movies."
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photos taken yesterday, ruminating on courage...
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| 'We learn by going where we need to go' |
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations.
They presented him the words:
“And this, too, shall pass away.”
How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride!
How consoling in the depths of affliction!
Abraham Lincoln
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| Tree route 7 Great Barrington I pass by this tree many times.. its beauty and dignity astounds me when I remember to look up.. |
"The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is -- it must be something you cannot possibly do!"
sculptor Henry Moore as told to Donald Hall
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There are examples of courage around us each day if we but ask.
I learned about six year-old Katy who exemplifies courage:
65 Roses Kate Daly
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