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Thanksgiving 2014
I’m thankful for
- Twenty years of marriage to the smartest, kindest, most wonderful woman in the world
- A healthy, happy, and mostly well-adjusted teenager
- The privilege of taking care of parents who have always taken care of me
- Able and dedicated coworkers
- A small but enthusiastic Taylor Smart fan club
- Homeowner’s insurance
- The end of political campaign ads for another two years
- The Academy for Classical Education
- Google Books
- The Bibb County Public Library
- Zydeco music
- Pepakura and the geniuses who design and build it
- The Christmas light show at Callaway Gardens
- The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team
- Indoor plumbing
- Faith
- Hope
- Love
What are you thankful for?
Sunday Inspiration: The Long Term
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Sunday Inspiration: Books
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them.
—Ray Bradbury
Sunday Inspiration: Welcome to Life!
People will let you down—welcome to life. People will also lift you up, save you, love you, embrace you, teach you, and guide you. Welcome to life!
—Elle Febbo
Sunday Inspiration: Convictions
Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world – “No, you move.”
—Steve Rogers (aka Captain America)
Sunday Inspiration: Humility
Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.
—C. S. Lewis
Sunday Inspiration: Joy
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
—Henri Nouwen
Sunday Inspiration: Suffering
Above all shadows rides the sun.
—Samwise Gamgee (via J. R. R. Tolkien)
Sunday Inspiration: The Pen Is Mightier…
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
—Alexandre Dumas
Sunday Inspiration: Humanity
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
—Desmond Tutu
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