April 10th is National Siblings Day, so I thought I'd write about how I—someone who was afraid of her own shadow—have learned to be less afraid from my younger brother, Jimmy Ravenna.
Pound for pound, my brother has always been the most powerful person I’ve ever known. Not power in terms of controlling others or situations, but personal power, that ability to control himself and his reaction to life. In August 2014, his personal power was tested, when at the age of 44, he and his beautiful wife, Jenielle, and their young children learned that Jimmy had Lou Gehrig’s Disease, aka ALS.
