I was sitting in my daughter’s living room this morning when my grandson brought me a book to read to him. It was a board book about dinosaurs. If you’ve ever read a board book you will know that they are pretty basic. We read about the different dinosaurs. When we got to the end Ezra said “Read it again, Papa!”

So we did.

Then again….

…and again…

…and again…

We probably read it about 10 or more times. “Hello T-Rex, Goodbye T-Rex. Hello Triceratops, Goodbye Triceratops. Hello Diplodocus, Goodbye Diplodocus.”

Repetition can be boring, but it’s also part of our recovery. In the same way that my two year old grandson learned to say diplodocus, I learned to work my steps through doing it it over and over and over. Sometimes the thing that is so monotonous is the thing that helps us to…

—Rise Up!!