PART ONE

One sunny day last week I chopped up some mango and apples, tossed plates and napkins into a bag, bought a bucket of bagels and went to pick my son up from preschool.  We had planned an after school picnic with another family and then a third family joined us.  The kids played, climbing, sliding, chasing each other with shrill squeals.  We mothers stood nearby and talked.  My two lunch companions were Mexican women who felt more comfortable talking in Spanish so we mostly spoke in Spanish.  I must have been moving slow in my Spanish to English

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Recently some friends and I were discussing the great difficulty of translating Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Ender's Game into a film. After years of negotiations and editing it seems Card still isn't close to a satisfactory screenplay.

How authentically do you live your life on any given day?

What keeps you from expressing more of your true nature?

I have a hunch that it’s the big "F” word that holds many of us back. That big word that sometimes becomes a declaration and even a more paralyzing feeling is F E A R…

Fear of failure…fear of what others will think or how they will react…fear of rejection or ridicule…fear of the unknown…fear of criticism.