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Sunday Inspiration: Hope
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
—Pliny the Elder
Sunday Inspiration: The Truth
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
—Flannery O’Connor
Sunday Inspiration: Lighthouses
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
—Anne Lamott
Sunday Inspiration: Being Human Together
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
—Desmond Tutu
Sunday Inspiration: Chains
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
—Voltaire
Sunday Inspiration: Worry
Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow; it empties today of strength.
—Corrie ten Boom
Sunday Inspiration: The Greatest Mistake
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
—Edmund Burke
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.
Darrell J. Pursiful 