Sunday Inspiration #7

Sunday morning – time to kick back, relax and reflect on the week completed. I like to do this by thinking about the things that inspire me. As ever, we have some inspiring music to accompany our short journey. Fire up that tune, then check out some of my biggest inspirations this week.

Our musical choice – Charlie Rich and The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, a great childhood memory and a wonderful Sunday morning song.

• A true hero climbs Kilimanjiro – Jon Le Galloudec was a soldier in the British Army, and was shot through the spine in Iraq in 2007.  He has joined with 4 friends (including an amputee) to climb Mount Kilimanjiro to raise money for Help for Heroes.  There is really nothing more to add – read their story.
• The Big Picture – Photo journalism at its absolute finest, The Boston Globe gathers some of the finest news photography and puts together some amazing sets of photos. Their Armistice Day feature was on one of the most moving I have seen in some time (especially photo #17 which I could not stop looking at), and their recent set from the conflict in Pakistan shows us just what an important role photo journalists play in bringing us the inside story of war.
• The Visual Miscellaneum – my copy of this finally arrived this week, and its an amazing thing, pages and pages of information presented in a dazzling array of infoporn – you can read more about the project and see some samples over at Information is Beautiful, or buy the book at Amazon. This should be required reading for anyone who makes charts at work – and then maybe we’ll all break free of the defaults in Excel.

What gives you inspiration this Sunday morning?