Into the Storm

I find David Whyte’s perspective helpful to explain what others have called my courage during Dave’s horrible battle with cancer—what I felt was the logical outcome of deciding, many years ago, to love.

Whyte says: “Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.”

With this in mind, I stand in breathless admiration for the health care workers who are rushing into the breach right now.