Sep 23rd
Tuesday
{for my 3 young ladies}
Go higher than you ever thought you could.
Climb the ladder of success, whatever that is for you.
Climb your way to the top.
Take as long as you need: no one is watching the clock (except maybe you).
Before you reach out to hold onto something, make certain it’s strong enough to support you.
Grit your teeth and scrape your knees and bleed and sweat.
If your mountain is simply to get through the day, then scale it.
When you get to the top, look back at what you’ve accomplished.
Now smile or holler or cry.
Before you head for the valley and the next mountain, remember the women who have gone before you and the ones who will follow your climb.
~Rachel Snyder
That’s a great philosophy. I prefer to holler.
A – to the – MEN!
The sign of true love is not only being able to recognize when the time is right to let go, but do it with such beautiful sentiment…such is the parents you are though….they will do well these girls of yours…
Lucky girls to have such a thoughtful guy in their lives. It’s about the words not the writer, such a clear sign of love.
Wonderful essay, and a sweet thing to post for your girls.
However, I now have “Climb Every Mountain” playing in my jukebox of a brain.
Thanks…
it seems we forget each day is a challenge… each day we accomplished something new… this is a wonderful reminder/ metaphor… thank you for sharing the wisdom
Thanks for posting an excerpt from my book, “365 Words of Well-Being for Women” (McGraw-Hill/Contemporary 1997). I invite you and your blog family to stop by and see much, much more of my intelligent inspiration and illumined insight.
RachelSnyder
Keep writing and telling it like it is…