If it swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck?
You know that person who doesn’t apologize for her preferences, sensitivities, strengths, vulnerabilities or style? Or, that man who knows “just who he is” and you sense something real when you’re with him? That’s authenticity. An authentic person’s presence touches something in us. Their ease with themselves is inspiring. And scary. And intimidating. We are drawn to them at the same time we are uncomfortable. Could that discomfort mean we want “whatever she’s having?” Authen