{"id":6526,"date":"2019-08-28T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2020-01-02T17:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T16:17:56","slug":"it-takes-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/it-takes-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"It takes courage&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Elizabeth_MrDarcy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6533 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Elizabeth_MrDarcy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Elizabeth_MrDarcy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Elizabeth_MrDarcy-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Elizabeth_MrDarcy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Elizabeth_MrDarcy.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I am still under the spell of England where we visited such beautiful and romantic places&#8230; places I know from Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mrs. Brown and The Crown&#8230; places I know from my daughter&#8217;s thesis about the chantries of Winchester cathedral&#8230; places I saw on iconic pictures before and now I had the privilege of experiencing them live&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I deeply enjoyed roaming the white cliffs,\u00a0 sensing Jane Austen&#8217; s feet strolling through the fields around Chawton and sleeping next to Stonehenge&#8230; it was an experience beyond words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sounds lyrical, doesn&#8217;t it? The thing is&#8230; there&#8217;s 5 rhythms and inevitably me and my own mr. Darcy danced them ALL, in all flavours, in all colours of the rainbow, from bright to dark, from full shadow back into the light&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We were not the dream couple&#8230; we quarelled, we struggled, we worked hard these last four weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We lived the difference between strength and courage&#8230; and finally found each other again&#8230; We are more intimate than ever&#8230; that&#8217;s worth everything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This poem from an unknown author tells a bit about our journey and our all rhythms explorations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1797720033907412236p2\"><em><span class=\"m_1797720033907412236s1\">It takes strength to be firm, it takes courage to be gentle.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1797720033907412236p2\"><em><span class=\"m_1797720033907412236s1\">It takes strength to conquer, it takes courage to surrender.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1797720033907412236p2\"><em><span class=\"m_1797720033907412236s1\">It takes strength to be certain, it takes courage to have doubt.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1797720033907412236p2\"><em><span class=\"m_1797720033907412236s1\">It takes strength to fit in, it takes courage to stand out.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1797720033907412236p2\"><em><span class=\"m_1797720033907412236s1\">It takes strength to feel a friend&#8217;s pain, it takes courage to feel your own pain.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1797720033907412236p2\"><em><span class=\"m_1797720033907412236s1\">It takes strength to endure abuse, it takes courage to stop it.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1797720033907412236p2\"><em><span class=\"m_1797720033907412236s1\">It takes strength to stand alone, it takes courage to lean on another.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1797720033907412236p2\"><em><span class=\"m_1797720033907412236s1\">It takes strength to love, it takes courage to be loved.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1797720033907412236p2\"><em><span class=\"m_1797720033907412236s1\">It takes strength to survive, it takes courage to live.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, for sure, it takes courage to live! Thank God, we can dance this ALL!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still under the spell of England where we visited such beautiful and romantic places&#8230; places I know from Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mrs. Brown and The Crown&#8230; places I know from my daughter&#8217;s thesis about the chantries of Winchester cathedral&#8230; places I saw on iconic pictures before and now I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6539,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}