Oh the joys of the park.  I have just realized as I write this the only time I can recall going to the park with my folks was when we went to White Rock Lake.  Otherwise I just ran wild between two playgrounds with a pack of kids in our apartment complex.  But times have changed.  So now I am instructed to put down my iPhone and come and play.  Literally being on the see saw again makes me feel like a little kid.  Only in the ’70’s it was a red wooden board and you just held on and prayed you wouldn’t fall off.  Now they have handles and springs to make sure one doesn’t go too high.  Speaking of high, my little one braved climbing the caterpillar and then became afraid of coming back down.  I remember doing the exact same thing.  I shot this picture before I helped her toes reach terra firma again.  She was so proud!  The great South African revolutionary Nelson Mandela said:

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.  The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

So take courage!  Whether it’s believing in yourself, or taking a ride on a caterpillar.