Courage

COURAGE = heart, spirit, innermost feelings; valor; quality of mind which enables one to meet danger and trouble without fear

QUESTION: Where is your courage?

STORY: Jesse was a boy in my 9th grade Special Ed Art class. He was a dreamer. Almost everyone in this class was a dreamer. (Perhaps they were imagining the upcoming summer time activities.) Anyway, I played a movie about Leonardo da Vince and the assignment was: Draw out your own Leonardo story of being an illegitimate child with a special kind of creativity. The story that Jesse created was so good that it was written into a play and the local high school Drama Club performed it for their Back-to-School-Day. I don’t know where Jesse is today but I imagine and hope that he is very actively continuing to discover the unique creative seed that he, like all of us, carry within. It does take courage for each one of us to draw out our unique creativity!

QUOTES

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~ Winston Churchill

“Every child is an artist - the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” — Pablo Picasso

“Creativity is the place where only you can go. Your discovery there will be wonderful - for you will have discovered - yourself.” ~ Catherine Hall Tauginbaugh

EXERCISE

STOP. Relax. And just FEEL the unique creative seed that lives within you. It takes courage to learn, to know and to express WHO YOU ARE.

Get your pen and paper and gently write, draw and express an innermost feeling that rises up in you at this moment.

And if you have another minute - draw lines expressing the courage of LOVE that is constantly flowing fearlessly through your body.