Darrell J. Pursiful

Sunday Inspiration: Chains

September 28, 2025 7:30 am

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
—Voltaire

Sunday Inspiration: Worry

September 21, 2025 7:30 am

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow; it empties today of strength.
—Corrie ten Boom

Sunday Inspiration: The Greatest Mistake

September 14, 2025 7:30 am

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

September 7, 2025 7:30 am

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

August 31, 2025 7:30 am

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
—Rudyard Kipling

Mommy, Where Do Elves Come From?

August 28, 2025 9:56 am

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

August 24, 2025 7:30 am

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

August 17, 2025 7:30 am

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

August 10, 2025 7:30 am

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

August 3, 2025 7:30 am

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
—Fred Rogers

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