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The First Word
The First Word
Summer is in the rear-view-mirror, though you’d never be able to tell by looking at the weather!
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In this issue of the Coronado Magazine we are proud to be … “One Town One Team.” Coronado is back to school, and it’s time for some home-made cookies. We take a stroll down memory lane with the CHS Class of 1962 … and some time off for a little Parental Elixir. Coronadans help a soccer club in Cape Town, South Africa … and we get to know Christine Johnson. With the help of the Coronado Historical Association we celebrate the history of the Windsor Cottage. Take a journey to the Williamette Valley with Kris Grant and get to know Island Icons, Don and Leslie Budinger.
The new school year is upon us (be a little more careful on the road now) … and as parents drop their children off each morning, it’s a good time to consider a little …
COURAGE
The stories we tell ourselves in books and movies have long created an imagery of courage that is often embodied in two very different icons; one a larger-than-life figure heroically standing tall, and another that fades into the background alone in silence to overcome. We are well familiar with these stories and the different images of courage they portray. But, in this day of anonymity provided through electronic interfaces and anonymous avatars, I would ask you to consider another form of courage, the courage to see and be seen. We spend our hours hidden behind keyboards, crafting personas far removed from the reality of what we really are, when the true challenge is to step into the day and bare forth the self before the crowd … and to embrace a self that is so revealed, free of all preconceptions.
Each month five members of this community embark on an exercise of courage, to reveal a piece of their inner self through their considerations upon the word of the month … and we are all richer for it.
Find a little exercise in courage to embrace in your daily life.
Dean K. Eckenroth Jr Editor & Associate Publisher
