These are troubling times for many. Financial hardship, fear of prejudice and racism, abusive relationships, homelessness, grief, loneliness, addiction, and struggles with health are just some of the heavy burdens people are facing.

Please be kind to people and animals. There are battles they are fighting you know nothing about.

courage (noun)

1. the ability to do something that frightens one:”she called on all her courage to face the ordeal”
   • strength in the face of pain or grief:”he fought his illness with great courage”

Middle English (denoting the heart, as the seat of feelings): from Old French corage, from Latin cor ‘heart’.

2 of my favorite quotes about courage:

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.

MARY ANNE RADMACHER, Courage Doesn’t Always Roar

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

– Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird