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Sunday Inspiration: The Children Are Always Ours
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
—James Baldwin
Sunday Inspiration: Liars
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
—Rudyard Kipling
Mommy, Where Do Elves Come From?
In the Caretaker Trilogy, about 10–15% of my elf lore comes from Shakespeare and other Elizabethan or early modern sources. Maybe the same amount comes from other world mythology. Much of the rest comes from Alaric Hall’s masterful PhD dissertation, “The Meanings of Elf and Elves in Medieval England” (2004).
Twenty years on, Dr. Hall sat for an interview with Graham Scheper, which is posted on his YouTube channel. Here it is, if you’re into that kind of thing.
Sunday Inspiration: Making a Difference
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
—Jim Henson
Sunday: Today Is a Gift
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.
—Babatunde Olatunji
Sunday Inspiration: Always
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it—always.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Sunday Inspiration: Different Gifts
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
—Fred Rogers
Sunday Inspiration: Allowing Oppression
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
—Desiderius Erasmus
Sunday Inspiration: Open Hearts
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
—Leonard Cohen
Sunday Inspiration: Care of the Soul
I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul.
—Thomas Merton
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