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Sunday Inspiration: Kindness
Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in this world.
—A. A. Malee
Sunday Inspiration: Dreams
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
—Langston Hughes
Sunday Inspiration: The Purpose of Human Life
The purpose of human life is to serve, to show compassion and the will to help others.
—Albert Schweitzer
Sunday Inspiration: Making a Difference
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
—Jane Goodall
Sunday Inspiration: Beginners
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
—Thomas Merton
Sunday Inspiration: Inventing Our Lives
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
Real Magic
No “scare quotes” necessary. Dr. Andrew Henry is a specialist in magical practices in late antiquity and has some opinions about how our favorite fantasy franchises handle magic. It’s well worth a watch!
Random Thoughts on Percy Jackson Season 3
I just finished listening to the audiobook of The Titan’s Curse, the third book in the Percy Jackson book series and thus the basis for the third season of the Disney series. Here are some random (spoiler-free) thoughts.
- There is a surprising divergence from book 2 in the final episode of season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, an unexpected twist that casts a character in a new light. I can now see how that change could raise the stakes for a particular plot point in season 3 by ratcheting up tensions that are already present in the text.
- Leah Sava Jeffries has indicated that her character, Annabeth, who is absent from most of book 3, is going to get a new fleshed-out story arc. I’m guessing this arc is going to involve flashbacks to reveal some important family dynamics that are discussed in the text but never from Annabeth’s POV.
- I bet I can guess what the end-of-series, mid-credits teaser for season 4 is going to be. (Di immortales, let there be a season 4 and a season 5!)
I loved reading the Percy Jackson books with my dear daughter years ago, and I wish the new series and its stars all the best!
Sunday Inspiration: True Wealth
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
—César Chávez
Sunday Inspiration: Reading
Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Darrell J. Pursiful 