Inspiration

I sat by a lovely man from Australia during the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. He kept pulling out new flags from his bag and waving them. I asked him about it and he said,

"I bring the 9 smallest nations flags with me as they won't have many people in the stands."

In 1984, college freshman Michael Cole bought two $8.50 tickets to the Chicago Bulls’ season opener, the NBA debut of a rookie named Michael Jordan.

He went alone when his friend bailed, keeping the unused ticket tucked away in a folder labeled “Mike’s Memory Box.”

Nearly 40 years later, Cole saw a torn stub from that same game sell for over $260,000. Realizing his full, unused ticket was one of a kind, he put it up for auction.

It sold for $468,000.

"When the song of the angel is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among brothers and sisters,
To make music in the heart."

- Howard Thurman, The Mood of Christmas and Other Celebrations. 

"When you realize that each day is not one more day. It's one less. You will start giving more value to the things that truly matter."

- unknown