I came across this quote again this week in a book and...well, I needed it.  The recent weeks have been filled with highs and lows, and even some wins that feel more like losses. But I am reminded that "showing up" over and over and over again matters.  It really matters. And when I read this I thought of our group -- men and women who are "in the arena" showing up over and over again for others.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -- President Theodore Roosevelt

To keeping on "showing up" and daring greatly.

Michael