Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

-- - Hebrews 12:1

And the day came when the risk to
freezing tight in the bud was more
painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin,
~~ Cuban-French author