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Question o' the Week: What inspires you?

Lindsey Lee My kids. So cheesy, but true...

Stephanie Fondren Bracey My beautiful 8-year-old daughter who has the happiest most innocent spirit and a heart of gold!

Iam ScrapDirty Perfection.

Charles Walter Jett Other people's artwork. Makes me step up my game when I see really good work.

Lisa Parenteau My mother. The strongest person I know.

Narada Thijs Snyder Not being told to hurry.

John Agwazim The way ants live.

Shuntina Johnson Sunsets, right before the rain.

Nicki Findley Nichols The feeling of freedom, whether its being silly with my 4-year-old or country road riding with the windows down and the music cranked.

Brittany Hammons Simmons Nature's beauty! I breathe it in and it is so serene.

Jarrod Parker Conquistadors.

Gregory Smith Frank Zappa.

Jessica Erin Eubanks The positive energy of others expressing themselves!

Terena Watkins Bell Being able to be an awesome single mom to my girls & showing them how to be strong, independent Christians.

Micah Smith Posters with animals that say motivational statements. Thank you, tiny cocker spaniel. I will "go for it."

H Charles Johnson Failure.

Yasmeen Banu Sincere kindness.


Pam Greer What inspires me? I'm inspired each day that I am allowed to wake up in good health and right mind by God to tackle life. Most people do not live to see another day; however, I did today.

Tony Davenport People who celebrate unity.

Brandon Ainsworth Life, and the endless possibilities that it has to offer. So much to do, so little time.


Olga Lynette Henderson Hanson Seeing, listening, existing--all inspire me to continue trying, caring, doing.

Jarrod Parker Curious people.

Tom Head Finding human dignity in unexpected places.

Laurel Isbister Irby People who rescue animals and help them live new lives.

Andrew Forbes The cancer patients I work with at Batson Children's hospital.

Jill Conner Browne People doing good for goodness' sake--for people (and/or animals!) who can't "repay" the kindness.

Kass Welchlin When my elders live a life full of conviction, follow their dreams and not give up on life.

Nola Kay Pearson Gibson All of the above and lifelong learning.

Melissa Kelly Deadlines.

Ginger Williams-Cook Teachers.

Edward Peter Cole II Random acts of kindness!

Dierdre Payne My parents.

Jehrod Alain What inspires me is the spiritual, that which is beyond our physical limitations. My dreams inspire me. Love inspires me.

Rachel Jarman Myers The Sonic Boom!

Don Allan Mitchell Mississippi.

Jan Michaels My almost 83-year-old father who still runs his own business and is caretaker of his wife of 56 years who is battling Alzheimer's while caretaking for a handicapped 53-year-old son. He inspires me daily. I don't know how he does it!

Tate K Nations My own failures.

Langston Moore My 9-year-old son wanting to be a Salvation Army bell ringer. And we are going to do it!

Deirdra Harris Glover The people who get up every day and quietly go about the business of making the world around them a bit kinder, better, and just.

Cari Fowler People that don't apologize for who they are--right or wrong.

Jerry File Jr. The quest to write a work of fiction that takes peoples' breath away and makes them walk around in a haze for several days.

William Spell Jr. People who not only carry on but create great art through adverse personal times, and whom you never knew were overcoming tremendous adversity in the carrying on of it.

Thabi Digitalindiegirl Moyo Real life, real people, real music.

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