With Only a Hat to Cover Your Heart

January 18, 2022 | Tags: Courage; vulnerability; love; fear; heart; community;

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Franklin Roosevelt announced in 1933, evoking a stiff-upper-lip kind of courage meant to assure a nation in the throes of the Depression. And we have repeated this ever since, as if by banishing fear we could overcome it.

Ask any group of children about courage, though, and they may offer a different wisdo…