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Willing to Trudge Recently, I picked up Bill Bryson’s book, A Walk in the Woods. This book chronicles his adventure of walking the Appalachian Trail back in 1996.  Though I’ve never undertaken such a long and arduous walk as he wrote about, I have slung a backpack onto my shoulders and trudged down trails in…

Starting Out Vulnerable Everyone of us is born dependent, unguarded and completely innocent. As for me, I was fortunate enough to have two parents and five older siblings who cared for me and cared about me.  Even though I grew up in a noisy and chaotic home, someone was always there to feed me, change…

 Discomfort Discomfort is discomforting. Whether our ache, pain, difficulty or tribulation is physically or emotionally felt, we want relief. In our discomfort we long for comfort. But, to find that consolation, we may have to unlearn what we’ve previously learned about discomfort.  My mother was the one who taught me how to deal with the…

National Anthem The Star Spangled Banner became our country’s national anthem in 1931. It was written by Francis Scoot Key who penned the words after witnessing the bombardment of Fort M’Henry by the British during the war of 1812. A recurring stanza, “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave,” helps…