Keep Your Courage
Susan McMahonThrough essays, photographs, and notes, I explore creativity, curiosity, and the experience of being a woman in her third act. My motto for this stage is simple: keep your courage. Because fear shouldn’t get the last word.
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Five Years
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This piece begins with the loss of cycling, but it isn’t just about cycling. It’s about losing a part of yourself, grieving who you once were, and apprec...
rainy days
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rain arrives
and the world stops asking
or maybe I stop listening
the lists in hand blur then fade
deadlines lose their sh...
The Space Between Fear & Courage
Courage doesn’t disappear all at once.
It gradually slips away without us noticing.
I used to think courage was something you either had or didn’t.
I’ve learned—not well enough evidently—that courage is something you have to practice.
S...
hope
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hope took a leave of absence January 2025
before long she went AWOL altogether.
hope was M.I.A.
hard to remember.
harder to fee...
keep your courage
Courage | NYC | 2020 | ©sml photography
Going from Keeping the Light to Keep Your Courage (I kept keep that’s some consistency, right?) is an easy pick. It just fits. Fits where I'm at personally — and in need of, fits the times we are liv...
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Fear has shaped much of my life in ways both obvious and subtle which is why courage is everything now.I don’t see my third act as a stage of winding down. I see it as a time of waking up. Keep Your Courage: because fear shouldn’t get the last word.
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