I thought this was a quote by Brene Brown.  Sounds just like her.  In remembrance of JFK today, I posted it. I was 12 when he was assassinated.  It was my moment of reckoning, it was the moment when I realized that world was not always going to be a beautiful friendly place.

There is no great success without great risk.  Whether it be for love, financial success, personal achievement….You have to be willing to get into the arena and be seen.  You can’t be afraid to fall, you have to learn how to get back up.

Therein lies the struggle.  When you are laying on the ground, with the taste of dirt in your mouth, you have to know how to push yourself up onto your elbows, wipe off your face, battle the forces that want you to stay down, and rise….your elbows, your knees, one knee, then both feet.

My first hero, JFK, and my latest one, Brene Brown.   Brilliant lights.