Courage

This work takes courage. It takes courage to delve into your life and lay clean the bare spots as well as the spots that are covered with flowers and lush, comforting, green growth. And then it takes courage to move from contemplation, to awareness, to action if that is needed, in order to grow something on those bare spots. Not necessarily something lush and comforting. Maybe something that starts out dull and prickly, but then like the desert after rain, blooms with strange new flowers.

I saw a bumper sticker today that said “Speak Up, Even When Your Voice Is Shaking”. We do a lot of that here. Not necessarily within these walls, but we walk out of here with our voices newly aired. Our work here encourages women to hang out with their voices, to hang their voices out, instead of folding them away in the dark again.