A review by liralen
The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal Beneath the Midnight Sun by Catrina Davies

4.0

When Davies set out to busk her way from Norway to Portugal, it was with a great deal of trepidation, and that's what resonated most strongly for me: that sometimes fearlessness is defined not by not having the fear in the first place and rather by having the fear and doing it anyway. For Davies, that meant setting off alone. It meant busking when she wanted to do anything other than play her cello in public, and navigating mold and ice in the van, and fear, and picking herself up again and again and again and again when the going got rough. Learning to surf, because the opportunity was there and she was afraid. And then doing it all over again.

Begging the question: what are you afraid of? And what would it take for you to do it anyway?