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Crossing Over Isn’t For Sissies

I love the scene in True Grit where Mattie Ross, determined not to get left behind, makes her horse cross the river and arrives safely on the other side (much to the surprise of Cogburn and LaBoeuf).

She was determined. She believed she could make it over.

She wasn’t willing to be left behind.

Adventure was waiting for her on the other side of the river.

She didn’t need a ferry.

Mattie Ross wasn’t a sissy.

She didn’t wait until everything was perfect or easy or guaranteed as a… Read More