courage

FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT

From Varlam Shalamov’s “Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag,” in Paris Review via Kottke. 7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests. 8. Party workers and the militaryContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT”

TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN

Brené Brown, The Courage to be Vulnerable. “But to separate that from the reality of vulnerability, I always ask a very simple question to people. I just say think of the last time you did something that you thought was really brave or the last time you saw someone do something really brave. You know,Continue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN”