I participated in, and graduated from, Leadership Evergreen in 2013. It was a wonderful program designed not only to teach the students more about how our unincorporated mountain area got started and functions today, but also valuable leadership skills to help us moving forward to better serve our community.

This blog post by Jane London resonated with me this morning, as I've been pondering something along these lines lately. As we were driving in the car after a yummy sushi lunch together, I told my hubby last week that I finally figured out my problem, to which he replied,

I wanted to post this story here so it was easy to find for a reminder. I've always tried to live this way:                                                                                              

"I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change." ~Dominique Moceanu

Gratitude plays a big part of that attitude...

Pain is a good teacher...