Category: Inspired

Bird Photographer Of The Year 2021 Releases Award Winners—Showing Birds Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before

They flock to visit exotic lotus ponds to take extravagant baths in India. They frolic upon the ice shelves in the extreme cold of the Antarctic southern hemisphere. They are your neighbors coming to visit you, wet their whistles, and sing sweetly to you in your own backyard. They are our dear feathered friends, birds,…


Founding Friends Bound Together by the Fourth of July

The United States has been blessed with many distinguished leaders. But the generation that founded our nation has a special place in the hearts of many Americans. Even among that very special generation, two of our Founders stand out not only because of their many accomplishments and their lasting mark on the country, but because…


Norman Rockwell’s America

“I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.” —Norman Rockwell Norman Rockwell’s career spanned six decades, and he is certainly one of America’s best-known 20th century artists. Many of us love him. Many dismiss him as a romanticist and kitschy caricaturist, but a showing of his works…


Climbing Everest at 75

Arthur Muir is nonchalant about the record he holds as the oldest American to climb Mount Everest at age 75. He reached the summit of the world’s highest peak on May 23 of this year, not while eying the glory of breaking a record, but rather with the humble yet steady thought of achieving a…


A New York Schoolgirl’s Christmas Wish: ‘Ask the Chinese Government to Release My Parents’

A 16-year-old Chinese girl, who is studying music in New York, hopes her one simple Christmas wish could be granted: the unconditional release of her parents who are detained in China for practicing Falun Gong. It has been more than a year since Grace Chen Fayuan, a talented erhu player, heard any news of what…


Uber Eats Driver Brings Disabled Customer to Tears With a Kind Note and Care Package

Unable to forget her interaction with a customer who’d lost his ability to use his left arm and hand after a stroke, an Uber Eats driver returned to the address and left a curated care package on his doorstep. The kind gesture brought the man to tears. “It was Sunday morning on Halloween, and [Tim…


Train-Obsessed Man Spent 8 Years and $330,000 to Build UK’s Biggest Model Railway Set

A train-obsessed businessman has spent a whopping 250,000 pounds (approx. US$330,000) and a staggering eight years to painstakingly build Britain’s biggest model railway. Simon George, 53, funded the 200-foot-long project by selling his share in a supercar driving experience company and created an incredible replica of a train line, set in 1980s Yorkshire, England. The…


Man Who Just Had Double Bypass Surgery Wins $1 Million Lottery by Scratching Word ‘Heart’ on Ticket

One Massachusetts man who recently had double bypass heart surgery encountered a stroke of good luck, fortuitously winning a $1 million lottery after scratching out the word “heart” on his ticket. Alex McLeish, from Attleboro, in November was gifted three tickets along with a get well soon card from his childhood friend Larry. Upon scratching…


The Peach Truck Coming Through

Growing up in Fort Valley, Georgia—one of the state’s biggest producers of peaches—Stephen Rose was always the kid who could tell when someone at a gathering had made a cobbler with grocery store-bought canned peaches. They simply couldn’t compare to the sweet Georgia peaches he frequently ate, plucked fresh from the tree at his neighborhood…


The Last Frontiersman

Roland Welker is as tough as they come. He’s a bushman, fur trapper, big game guide, logger, and survivalist who spends months at a time alone, deep in the wilderness of the western Bush region of Alaska. His tough exterior is evidenced in the dirt embedded deep in his fingertips, his raspy yet animated voice,…