Lauri Lemke Thompson

Sacrifice. Endurance. Twelve hours is a long time to sit motionless. I of course could not pick their birdbrains, but I speculated: While sitting on that nest, do they miss soaring through the air, choosing their own path and foraging for food?

When problems stack up and life is so hard, we may feel like we are living in a harsh, barren desert--and barely surviving.

Why are we so lax in giving out compliments? I think we often have good inclinations but don’t act on them.