After a recent visit to Washington, DC it struck me that all the war memorials were really memorials about courage.

Taking a stand, for anything, requires courage. Courage is knowing what’s right and then acting on it.

During the Nazi occupation of his country in WWII, King Christian X of Denmark noticed a Nazi flag flying over a Danish public building. He immediately called the German commandant, demanding that the flag be taken down at once. The commandant refused. “Then a soldier will go and take it down,” said the king.

Embarrassingly, this really happened to me!  

To really listen we must use our ears and our eyes.

This was a lesson from my youngest child.

A hurricane’s outer bands can extend a few hundred miles from the center. Hurricane Andrew's (1992) rainbands reached 100 miles out from the eye, while those in Hurricane Gilbert (1988) stretched over 500 miles.

The hurricane's eye is a relatively calm, clear area usually 20 - 40 miles across. People in the midst of a hurricane are often amazed at how the incredibly fierce winds and rain can suddenly stop and the sky clear when the eye comes over them.