Courage Is Contagious

~ May 1st, 2010

I’m not sure what it is about alliteration that keeps me so rapt with attention amidst any attempt aurally amplified and afixed to my aforementioned…attention, but my free writing, blogging, and journaling often end up mired in such unilexular rants.

There, I’ve caught your attention! My lead is at the top and it’s all downhill from here so don’t expect anything else exciting–except a few more alliterations, a YouTube clip of V for Vendetta and some of my Pre-ISI journal writing.

First, my favorite alliterative clip to whet your appetite:

Okay, it’s a movie clip so embedding is disabled. Just go to this link to hear it. Here is the monologue:

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant,vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition

While reading our first assignment today on the Courage of Conversation (Wheatley) I began to notice patterns in the text. I usually do a fair amount of word underlining in articles I read and then begin scribbling notes on a separate page after each paragraph. I found that many of the words I was picking out began with “c,” so I started to play.

Courage is contagious and contemplative. Through courage, conversation conjugates contemplation, compassion, and conviction, cancels complacency and compliance, configuring coordinated collaboration and contiguous creation congruent with a community’s challenges and concerns.

When we become curious about other’s cares, we can collectively create change.

Thought this was a great article and I had fun talking about it with everyone!

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