{"id":2516,"date":"2007-12-04T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/courage"},"modified":"2009-01-18T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T14:21:48","slug":"courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/courage","title":{"rendered":"Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”<\/p>\n

– Maya Angelou<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Courage<\/b><\/p>\n

It is in the small things we see it.
\nThe child’s first step,
\nas awesome as an earthquake.
\nThe first time you rode a bike,
\nwallowing up the sidewalk.
\nThe first spanking when your heart
\nwent on a journey all alone.
\nWhen they called you crybaby
\nor poor or fatty or crazy
\nand made you into an alien,
\nyou drank their acid
\nand concealed it.<\/p>\n

Later,
\nif you faced the death of bombs and bullets
\nyou did not do it with a banner,
\nyou did it with only a hat to
\ncover your heart.
\nYou did not fondle the weakness inside you
\nthough it was there.
\nYour courage was a small coal
\nthat you kept swallowing.
\nIf your buddy saved you
\nand died himself in so doing,
\nthen his courage was not courage,
\nit was love; love as simple as shaving soap.<\/p>\n

Later,
\nif you have endured a great despair,
\nthen you did it alone,
\ngetting a transfusion from the fire,
\npicking the scabs off your heart,
\nthen wringing it out like a sock.
\nNext, my kinsman, you powdered your sorrow,
\nyou gave it a back rub
\nand then you covered it with a blanket
\nand after it had slept a while
\nit woke to the wings of the roses
\nand was transformed.<\/p>\n

Later,
\nwhen you face old age and its natural conclusion
\nyour courage will still be shown in the little ways,
\neach spring will be a sword you’ll sharpen,
\nthose you love will live in a fever of love,
\nand you’ll bargain with the calendar
\nand at the last moment
\nwhen death opens the back door
\nyou’ll put on your carpet slippers
\nand stride out.<\/p>\n

– Anne Sexton<\/a>
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\n(Click me! I am a song!)
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\n“Courage”
\nby Jasper Van’t Hof’s Pili Pili<\/a><\/p>\n

… and because you can never have enough courage, here’s another “Courage” song: “Courage” by Manowar<\/a><\/div>\n

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