Beautifully put. This piece is a powerful reminder that living authentically requires courage, especially when it disrupts someone else’s version of us. I choose the oak tree.
Well done, Helena! I love it when something we write long ago ends up providing inspiration or encouragement to ourselves and others years later. That's a blessing!
Yes, Susan. It was my first experience of the power of social media. Someone on LinkedIn liked it and ‘recommended’ it and the stats rose by the second for a couple of days with many comments and reposts.
So, when testing the waters on Substack, I decided to make that article my first post and......
Humility isn’t all bad, though 😌. I like the slower growth and quieter responses here. I think of it as slow cooking…and things come out with better flavor in time.
I wrote this 10 years ago and it still inspires me to keep trying to be the ‘best me’ I can be today, so as to become a ‘better me’ tomorrow.
Beautifully put. This piece is a powerful reminder that living authentically requires courage, especially when it disrupts someone else’s version of us. I choose the oak tree.
Well done, Helena! I love it when something we write long ago ends up providing inspiration or encouragement to ourselves and others years later. That's a blessing!
Yes, Susan. It was my first experience of the power of social media. Someone on LinkedIn liked it and ‘recommended’ it and the stats rose by the second for a couple of days with many comments and reposts.
So, when testing the waters on Substack, I decided to make that article my first post and......
Ha ha, the power of silence to keep us humble.
Humility isn’t all bad, though 😌. I like the slower growth and quieter responses here. I think of it as slow cooking…and things come out with better flavor in time.
Each of us has our own story to write, and play out. Do we want to be the main character, or are we willing to hand off that role to someone else?