So this is the message. What I learn every day.

When you feel the fear. When you hear the voices in your head

telling you that it can’t be done, shouldn’t be done, that the

world is too overwhelming for a chump like you, then respect yourself.

Move forward. Listen to a different whisper. That says this:

You are good. You are worthwhile. You can live the life you wish.

If you move forward. Change the script in your head. Write a different story.

On some level beyond my comprehension, Red knows this. I am learning what

he has been through, how generous and accepting and loving he has chosen

to be. And how strange. I want to be the same way.