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Sunday Inspiration: Passion

Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by…. Don’t follow your passion, but always bring it with you.
—Mike Rowe

Sunday Inspiration: Purpose

Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep needs.
—Frederick Buechner

Sunday Inspiration: Humility

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
—John Wooden

Sunday Inspiration: Perseverance

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
—Michael Jordan

The World Needs Books!

Preach it, Madison!

Sunday Inspiration: Purpose

What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
—George Eliot

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