Her case of stripes worsens and begins to extend to the world around her. So she decides to quit eating them, and, in doing so, she loses herself. Camilla loves lima beans but the other kids make fun of her for liking them. It is the perfect analogy for what I think we are all going through.Ĭamilla develops a bad case of stripes because she refuses to eat lima beans. I haven’t been able to get this book out of my mind for the last two weeks. It reminds me of a book I read to my girls when they were little. The harder we try, the more challenges we continue to face. But let’s face it, our surge capacity is fried. We talk a lot about surge capacity…that innate ability to rally enough hope and energy to make it through difficult circumstances. These last 18 months have been THE MOST challenging of my 20+ year career and that’s saying something because I once used myself as a body shield to break up a fight between two girls (much taller than I am) in a lunchroom in Little Rock in 2010. Can we talk about the elephant in the room for a minute? I know you’re all feeling it as heavily as I am.
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