Being old and getting older. You wonder what that might be like.
Best way I can describe it – for me at least – a lot like a dog must feel before blasting off into outer space.
Wasn’t my idea but now I guess all I can do is hold on tight. – JDW
There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else.
Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.
But sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.
That is the sort of bravery I must have now.” – Veronica Roth, Allegiant.
FUTURE By Gabriela Linarez-Rochin (age 8)
This is the key to the future
waiting for you to come to it.
to tell you stories all day long.
– from 2018 Rattle Young Poets Anthology
