Will you Dare to be the Hero of your Own Life?
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyone else, these pages must show” Dickens David Copperfield
Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Demon Copperhead, reimagines Dicken’s story in modern rural America with poverty and opioid addition.
Demon’s words are quite fatalistic, instead of hopeful: “Save or be saved, these are questions. You want to think it’s not over til the last page.”
Sounds grime, right?
Not necessarily.
Resilience - the trait that no one can define. Some have it. Sadly, others do not
It is our reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how our life’s story will develop.
As Nelson Mandela stated, “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
Resilience is the theme of Sherrill’s memoir and Debi’s poetry which we will be sharing soon.