The Daily Boost #380

Amelia Earhart wasn't just an aviator

Did you know that aviator Amelia Earhart first wanted to be a poet? Listen to her poem "Courage" (1928) as sung by Danielle de Niese, with Christopher Tin conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

COURAGE 
Amelia Earhart 

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not knows no release
from little things:

Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.

How can life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare

The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the resistless day,
And count it fair. 

(My thanks to Danielle de Niese, Christopher Tin, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.)

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The Gentle Nudge

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