Bliss

Welcome home my pets!

Definitions

Ordinary courage.

From Brene Brown:

Courage originally meant "to speak one's mind by telling all one's heart."  Over time,  this definition has changed,  and, today,  courage is more synonymous with being heroic.   Heroics is important and we certainly need heroes, but I think we've lost touch with the idea that speaking honestly and openly about who we are,  about what we're feeling,  and about our experiences (good and bad) is the definition of courage.   Heroics is often about putting out life of the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line.   In today's world,  that's pretty extraordinary.

Stolen from an old role model

Away

We are away. Here is how it goes.  I like making myself at home.  So does Kissyfur.

Thought

The opposite of great is easy.

Walking, Sailing

Having a good raincoat is right up there with birthing humans, and making people fall down when they're ice skating using only my mind in terms of making me feel like I have some kind of super powers.

I think that part of me is in a nineteenth century sea captain's daughter.

I love the wind in my hair and rain (or sea spray) on my face. I feel really in tune with the sky, the wind. I keep my hair short or in a scarf so it is out of the way. I like ropes and I like tying knots. I like the hopefulness of bird song in the wildness of the sea. 

As I walked through the woods this morning, the moaning creak of trees debating whether to give into the wind felt like the creaking timbers of my father's ship

And check out this little guy:

Fear and Tornados