carry oneself

“I learned a lot from Kenny just about how to carry oneself, how to approach the work with humility, which is something I’ve tried to do,” Chang said.

Walking from the house on Oglesby to the house on Euclid, through the abutting worlds of a single neighborhood, I’m tracing a pattern deeply imprinted on me—my first and truest atlas of what’s out there beyond family and home, my first and most formative guide to how to carry oneself when abroad in it.

Often, in Afghanistan, young girls are far less physically active and have been taught to never speak up or raise their voices; they are expected to know more about cooking and romantic Bollywood movies than how to shoot a gun and carry oneself, hips forward in leather jacket and jeans.

I know women in their 70s and several in their 80s who could give lessons in how to dress and how to carry oneself with a sense not only of spirit and grace, but of beauty.

Steve Lombardozzi Sr. was a big-league infielder from 1985 to ’90, and while his career ended too early for Steve Jr. to have gotten the chance to grow up in a big league clubhouse, the way some sons of big leaguers do, through a combination of genetics and design the youngster came to know at an early age what it meant to carry oneself like a big leaguer.