There are so many amazing people in my life. Tatjana Bates is one of them. She’s one of those rare natural leaders. She visited here recently, and I got to thinking how plucky she is and how much she has done for the small community of Williams Lake, British Columbia. This little slideshow is...
Constance McMillen had a dancing partner. She had an outfit—a tuxedo. She even offered to arrive separately so no one would have to see her and her date arriving as a couple. Officials at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi gagged. Allow a lesbian couple to appear in public? What about slow dancing?...
When our good friend, Hylton, sent the e-mail below, I had just been beating myself up over having accidentally ditched a presentation from my computer. (See Pushing On.) The story lifted my spirits so I was delighted when its author agreed to let me post it on Catching Courage. On Wednesday morning I awoke...
[After I posted Facing our lions, Jenni Woodroffe sent me this story. Jenni is a talented Australian storyteller and children's book expert who lives in Perth, Australia. I asked her permission to share this story. Jenni and I met while she was on the trip below. We have been friends ever since. In 2009...
Thanks to Sharon for sending me this video link. I smiled all the way through it. Watch Kate Nicholas’s face. Making assumptions about someone based on a five-minute video is risky, but what I see is quiet pride, fierce love, absolute commitment, and rock-solid assurance. It takes a lot of all four to audition...
In 1924 an Akita Inu pup was born in Japan. An agriculture professor from Tokyo, Hidesaburō Ueno, bought the pup from a farm near Ōdate. Every day Hachikō waited for the professor at the Shibuya Station. In May 1925, Professor Ueno had a stroke while lecturing and died. Hachikō was given to a new...
What my community, my world, would look like if there was no violence against women or children. ©2003 Donna Milner There is no ‘us’ or ‘them’ There is only We We are one We are whole We are the people of the world And we the Children of the world Play in our yards,...
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea Dee Dee Rainbow shed her mask. Rainbow-striped eyelashes, flowing rainbow clothes, rainbow makeup, rainbow jewelry,...
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