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Aug 2, 2008
"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself." --Anna Brownell Jameson
Little Boy, Big Mountain
Although no one said it out loud, it was clear the first day that 7-year-old Keats Boyd would probably not make it to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. At just four feet tall, the kid could barely conquer a fallen log. There was just no way he was going to make it all the way up Africa's tallest mountain. That was obvious to everyone ... except for Keats. The boy doesn't come from a mountain-climbing family. In fact, his parents, Brian and Dana, say they don't even like stairs. "It's absolutely nature and not nurture in his case because we didn't raise him to sit around and think, let's go climb big mountains," "It's not impossible to do something," Keats said. "You just have to believe in yourself to do it." And do it he did -- becoming the youngest person ever to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
BE THE CHANGE
Work this week toward a worthy -- but what might sometimes seem "impossible" -- goal.
