Day 093l: The Virtue of Violeta … (July 16, 2019)
This is Violeta, a soft-spoken woman who was begging outside the church doors as I exited. And this is Violeta, who – after hearing about my Walk and its purely penniless nature – tried to give me money from her own beggar’s cup … :O
“Heroes don’t leap tall buildings in a single bound or stop bullets with an outstretched hand. They don’t wear boots and capes and masks. Real heroes bleed and are just easily bruised, and their superpowers are as simple as listening earnestly or giving selflessly. Indeed, true heroes are ordinary people who know that even when their own lives are impossibly knotted & severely downtrodden, they too can untangle & uplift someone else’s.” ~ via Jodi Picoult
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