Welcome to Capturing Courage
Witnessing and reporting on all courage, big or small, to inspire us all.
Here I am, sitting on my back deck, in the middle of the falling leaves of the picturesque Hudson Valley. My back deck neighborhood consists of dozens of birds, yellow mums, pink morning glories, a cat that roams the adjacent farms we call, “Jerry,” and the last hurrahs of peppers and herbs.
As a writer, I observe and feel the world in detail, in all its fear and in all its glory.
As director of content at Be Courageous, I get to witness courage in professional settings worldwide, on a daily basis.
I’ve studied courage academically. I’ve helped extremely courageous people write their memoirs. I witness courage in nature and in people — in parenting and in kids, in everyone living the best they know how on a daily basis.
In my own life, I’ve developed a strong relationship with courage. As a child growing up half in L.A. and half in San Diego, a first-generation college student living away from home, struggles with infertility, to parenting two kids into adulthood (one having just gotten his pilot’s license at 19!), getting laid off and starting a new career, divorce, and a beautiful remarriage to the extraordinary Dr. Glenn Geher (who runs the Substack, The Human Condition), a move across the country to start over with building a community at 50 years old and learning a new land and culture—Courage and I best buds.
To kick off this blog that will be in service of inspiring courage, I want to highlight a mantra that my incredible boss, Kyle Hermans has taught me.
“Where there is fear, there is always courage. So will you live life from a place of fear, or a place of courage?”
This blog is to help me, and us all, be inspired by the courage that lives within all of us…even in the spinning maple tree seeds that are like heroic little helicopters flying down around me as the sun says goodnight for the day, illuminating every golden leaf.
Thanks for being here. Let’s capture courage in this world of ours and let it inspire us to live our lives courageously as well.