Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Inspiration and Heroes
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King Jr., letter from Birmingham Jail 1963) When Daniel was a high school senior, he applied to five or six colleges, public and private. He had worked hard and was accepted into all of them. He received large academic scholarship offers from each of the private schools…except for one.…
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This quote popped out at me this morning… Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self…
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My dear friend Ann turns fifty today. Ann is fifty….Ann is fifty? No….no matter how often I write it, or how many more years go by, Ann will never be fifty..or fifty-five…or sixty. Ann is and always has been ageless…her spirit is simultaneously young and old…fun-loving, adventurous, spontaneous, mischievous, passionate…marbled with wisdom, peacefulness, charm, practicality, and common sense. …
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Lago Vista may be small, but we have our own Olympic hero now - Lindsey Carmichael, daughter of the middle/high school nurse, just brought home the bronze in archery in the Paralympics in Beijing. She also competed in the Athens Paralympics in 2004. Not only is she a gifted archer, but she's an amazing…
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One of the first and best gifts my parents ever gave me was my big sister, or "See-uh-stuh" as I called her for the first few years – I don't remember when I switched to Brenda. Sometimes I feel like I've let my daughter down by not providing…
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