Archive: Inspirational category
Check out Joy to Everyone, a new video by Stephen Jones of the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications:
I like it.
I love passion. Crackling with life is the way to live, sparks flying with every choice you make, moving forward with everything you've got. I keep forgetting that. I do the same old things over and over again, with habit providing my momentum instead of fire, and ...
The Big Picture (at the Boston Globe) has some incredibly touching photos in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month:
Families, caregivers, charities and research groups across the United States are observing September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. In the U.S., over 12,000 children under the age of 21 are ...
The other day I read about Beethoven's kiss:
The great Hungarian concert pianist Andor Földes tells the remarkable story of the watershed moment in his rise to world renown. He was 16 years old and already a veteran of years of intense practice and performance. The pianist Emil von Sauer, ...
J.K. Rowling gave a rather good commencement address at Harvard this past Thursday, entitled "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination." (Thanks to Joni for the heads-up.)
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the ...
I've been reading Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life, and it's chock-full of nuggets that inspire me to take up my pen and write, write, write. (The other part I love is that she's unabashed about her Christianity and its influence on her writing.)
Here's one bit I ...
In a conversation I had the other day, it hit me: pretty much everyone feels inadequate. It's not just me. :) And yet "I'm the only one" is inadequacy's ever-present traveling companion, which grabs a handful of salt and shoves it into the wound -- after all, knowing ...
Yesterday at the ward conference I was attending, the elders quorum president read this little story which I rather liked. I spent a couple minutes trying to track down its original source, but so far it seems to be anonymous. If you know who wrote it, please let ...
I went to Gary Gillum's retirement address today (he's been the ancient studies librarian here at BYU for a while, and he's done a lot of other things -- he and I are working on Truman G. Madsen's new book together, for example). He read a quote that I've ...
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?" says Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables. "It just makes me feel glad to be alive -- it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about ...
