Have you ever been confronted with the need to change, but you do nothing? Even if you know that the change is in your best interests. The  fear of change  or  changing  things is called Metathesiophobia. Psychologists often link it with Tropophobia which is the  fear  of moving. When we are children, we are often fearless.  But as experience mounts, our fears grow, and sometimes trap us. This is when that we begin to compromise our dreams and hopes for the future. Our fear of moving traps us in lives of mediocrity. In the movie Night at the Museum the wax model of Teddy Roosevelt tells Larry Daley,” Some men are born great, and some men have greatness thrust upon them.”  It is in times of turmoil that many seemingly ordinary people rise to greater heights than they ever imagined. This was true for Larry Dayley, as it is for Nadine, in the Last of the Silver Wings. Having skills does not make us heroes. Even villains have skills. Sometime...

Diary of Dorothea Copyright Kim Vermaak 2020 700AD  Day 1 - Morning  Lockdown with a Dragon  The horror of the day lurks in my mind. When my children are not watching I feel a wave of fear rise inside me.  The deafening shriek of that fearsome beast ripped me from my sleep. Adrenaline surged through me and a kind of terror covered me as I watched the flames erupt from the beast’s mouth.  Nicolous had raced ahead to see what the danger was and ordered me to stay with the children.  But the fear of not knowing what was out there had compelled me to follow him.    Then I saw her.  Enormous, fierce and unyielding in her anger. As I recall her body now while everyone around me is asleep, I can see the ferocious beauty in her shimmering silver form as the light of the flames danced over her scales. There was grace in her flight as her massive form covered the sky.  But I did not perceive that when she first invaded m...