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What is Courage?

15 Saturday Aug 2015

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Courage, what does it mean for you? I know that it means different things for many people. For me, it means having the strength to push through your fear. I feel that there are many kinds of courage. It’s one of those things that can’t be compared. Lately, there has been a lot of comparing of different kinds of courage. The one comparison that has weighed heavy for me is the courage of a soldier vs. the courage of someone who is a public figure and announces that he is transgender.

Both have courage and both make an impact on people’s lives. A U.S. soldier fights for our freedom. He or she pushes through the fear and puts his or her life on the line to give us our freedom. We can all agree that we are very thankful to every U.S. soldier who has put their lives on the line and those who have given their lives for us. It takes a lot of courage to move past that fear and commit to a life of serving our country. Then there is the courage it takes for someone who is a public figure, who had won the gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics and set a world record in the decathlon, to announce to the world that he is transgender. She too, is impacting people’s lives. Albeit, in a different way than a soldier and why I say that courage comes in different forms. Her courage has hopefully opened the doors for others to be able to live the life they want to live. I am positive that her courage changed the lives for many people. I applaud both and I thank both.  Continue reading →

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Out with the Old, In with the New

01 Saturday Aug 2015

Posted by Nina Poersch in Life Happens

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Last week, I went in search of hangers for the clothes I just pulled out of the dryer. Amazingly, I couldn’t find a spare hanger in my closet or my husband’s closet. This seems to be a weekly occurrence for me. And every week I find myself pulling hangers out of the guest bedroom closet. At this rate, I’ll soon have no hangers left for guests, so I jumped into my car and headed out to the nearest store that sells hangers. For me, that was my local Target. Halfway there I thought to myself, do I really need to buy more hangers and shove more clothes into my already packed closet? No, so I turned the car around, marched upstairs into my bedroom and opened the closet door and examined. I did not physically go through my clothes, instead I just stood back and looked at them. From where I stood, I could see all the clothes I no longer wore. Why was I saving these clothes? One reason is, most of my clothes are in great shape and barely look worn. It wasn’t because I didn’t wear them, but because I’m a bit anal when I do laundry. So much so that my husband has been told not to wash my clothes. It’s tough to get rid of clothes that look almost brand new. The second reason is, that while I may not wear these particular clothes now, you just never know, I may want to in the future. This reason is a little crazy because I have clothes I have not worn in years. When I did wear them, I loved them. Why don’t I love them now? It’s not that I don’t love them now, I just got tired of them. So when I start to reason it that way, I have to tell myself, even though I once loved a particular piece of clothing, I no longer enjoy wearing it. What makes me think that in the future, I’ll go to my closet pick out this particular piece of clothing I haven’t wore in years and suddenly decide I want to wear it again? I won’t, that will never happen. Then of course, I have a small space in my closet that houses my sentimental pieces. Clothes that belonged to my brother who passed away in 1987, clothes that my mom made for me more me than 20 years ago and a Halloween costume I made myself, because you never know when you might want to be a flapper again.  Continue reading →

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