WITH (2025)
With. Such a small, hardly profound or important word. Usually used to tie things together, and here I’ve picked it for my word of the year. By itself unassuming, but that all depends on who it’s referring. Last year was my year of courage. I don’t know that I would even say that I had a lot of courage, but I had the choice to choose it and to decide if or when I would act courageously often. I would say I had my fair share of opportunities and many a plan not go according to my plan. As I was trying to wrap up the thoughts of the year behind, I was thinking of what would be the opposite of courage, to help define courage. Now, you won’t find this in the dictionary, but as I was thinking about it, DIScourage seems to be the enemy of courage- the opposite of courage because it disarms us and makes us believe that maybe courage really isn’t worth it. But that maybe that’s when it’s most important. That, friends, is what lead me to with . The same passage that I had gotten cour...
