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This American tall tale – or collection of tales – comes from the great tradition of brag stories from the Wild West. Decades of cowboys…
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Plan B
I have two anecdotes to share today, and then something to say about them. Last year, my friend B. shared a wonderful “Plan B” story…
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Making Friends with Fear
Me making friends with Fear As some of you dear readers may recall, I decided to adopt a fearless approach to life in 2012. Trust…
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Courage Challenge Report: Dealing with Dragons
It being an unusually mild February break, my daughter, the Lovely K., declared her intention to sleep outside in a tent. We set it up…
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The fear at the bottom of the hole
It has been argued that there is, fundamentally, only one fear: the fear of death. This hypothesis says that if you trace any fear to…
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Parkour? Or Peace Like a River?
The subtitle for our blog talks about “challenges on the path ahead.” I want to establish some working definitions for the purpose of today’s post….
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5-Minute Courage Workout: Pull Up a Chair and Make Yourself Uncomfortable!
Compiled and written by Lisa and Jennifer: Part of developing physical courage is to gain, through experience, a comfort with discomfort. It is impossible to…
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On Stories, Narrative and Storytelling
This again is from Bruce Jackson’s wonderful The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories, and speaks to our human urge to…
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Courage Question of the Day
Here at Lion’s Whiskers we are hoping to collect examples of physical courage. To recap, here’s how we define physical courage: Physical courage is the…
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About Stories
From a wonderful book called The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories, by Bruce Jackson. It says so elegantly what we’ve…
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