“Courage is not about being impervious to danger, but being alive to it. Scars—and the damage we incur throughout the knocks and cuts and struggles of life—are not signs of devaluation, but symbols of hard-won strength. People in whom these physical, emotional, or spiritual scars are apparent, are people who have many things to teach you, because they have had many things to learn.”

-Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

Full Resource can be found here: Crossings: A Bald Asian American Latter-day Saint Woman Scholar’s Ventures Through Life, Death, Cancer, and Motherhood