Jewels from the Dark

I grew up in a military family and one of my early life lessons was to hurry up and wait. The concept meant you had to make sure you were at least 15 mins early to everything (or an hour early, which is still my comfort zone…) and then you have to actually wait for…

I’m a little bit obsessed by J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, especially the people of Rohan. I love their fighting spirit, how they never give up even when the odds are against them. I also love one of their battle cries – ‘Forth…and fear no darkness!’ Darkness has been a constant…

The more life I experience, the more I am convinced that we must learn to embrace the darkness that visits us all. Life is full of bright moments and depths of darkness. While we may crave the sunlight, we must learn to mine the jewels from the dark. I have spent the majority of my…