According to Psychology Today, surveys show that we humans fear public speaking more than anything else, even death.
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. photo credit: archer10 (Dennis) via photopin cc
My dad, on the right, with his cousin in 1925.
On Father’s Day my own father comes to mind. He was a tall, barrel chested man and strong as an ox.
As a farmer he had to use his wits. His generation was the last to use mules to plow and the first to use tractors. The beauty of using mules is that you could only work during daylight, from dawn to dusk. Tractors had lights, so my father could work incessantly.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. Read more passion quotes. photo credit: pablo.sanchez via photopin cc
How can you do that?
I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.
– June Carter Cash via BrainyQuotes
My mother had an iron fist in a velvet glove. One look could chill me to the core.
I was scared of her.