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Thanksgiving 2015

I’m thankful for…

  • The constant, overwhelming, amazing grace of God.
  • Family who love me.
  • Friends who care about me.
  • A warm home to live in.
  • The turkey in the oven.
  • The theory of general relativity.
  • Panda Express.
  • Sale prices at academic conferences.
  • The music my daughter has brought into my life.
  • Friends and colleagues I know both in real life and merely digitally.
  • Reunions with beloved mentors.
  • The smell of baking bread.
  • Babies’ giggles.
  • Kentucky basketball.
  • Freedom.
  • Faith.
  • Hope.
  • Love.

What are you thankful for?

Sunday Inspiration: Perseverance

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
—Walter Elliott

Sunday Inspiration: Peace

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
—Mother Teresa

Sunday Inspiration: Educating the Heart

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
—Aristotle

Sunday Inspiration: Intentions

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
—William Blake

Sunday Inspiration: Meaning and Purpose

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
—Pablo Picasso

Sunday Inspiration: The Majority

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
—Mark Twain

Sunday Inspiration: Goodbye

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
—A. A. Milne

Sunday Inspiration: Seeing Rightly

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Sunday Inspiration: Story

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.
—Jonathan Gottschall