Posts Tagged: "True Grit"

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Crossing Over Isn’t For Sissies

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I love the scene in True Grit where Mattie Ross, determined not to get left behind, makes her horse cross the river and arrives safely on the other side (much to the surprise of Cogburn and LaBoeuf).

She was determined. She believed she could make it over.

She wasn’t willing to be left behind.

Adventure was waiting for her on the other side of the river.

She didn’t need a ferry.

Mattie Ross wasn’t a sissy.

She didn’t wait until everything was perfect or easy or guaranteed as a… Read More

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MORE LEAKAGE

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Here’s a little more leakage – some content from the book I wrote this summer…

Yo, we at war. We at war with terrorism, racism, and most of all, we at war with ourselves. —Kanye West (Jesus Walks)

Tears on the mausoleum floor, blood stains the coliseum doors… —Jay-Z (No Church in the Wild)

If you act like wild animals, hurting and harming each other, then watch out, or you will completely destroy one another… Read More