At the end of the day you have only one thing and that is the product of all your actions, all your movements have set free the chain reaction that determines the essential meaning of your life. A mother defined by the lives of her children, unconditionally loving her family despite the imperfections, in her children’s lives she has found a common ground. What then is significant? Is it the quantity of lives we touch, is it the money we make, the trust we leave, is it our time we give, the purpose we seek? What then defines a noble soul? He searched for his life in a bottle. 1950’s man, bound to the day in day out dissatisfaction with life and his labor. Unable to live fully in shame for who he was, more shameful for what he wasn’t. She sought from each moment the ability to live it, the gift to love it, life that is. Whom then do we blame for life’s failures? If we have nothing left than why not give our acceptance, our ability to smile, our ability to heal, our ability to forgive and our ability to fail, knowing that in the end nothing more matters than the actions we leave in motion. A family defines the Prize winner of Defiance Ohio, what then defines me?

Moments of war, and governments dissatisfied with self, seeking to change in fear of looking within. An essential mistake made by those too arrogant and too distracted to look within. Religious warfare not in the name of God but by the bombs of man. For a moment how would it be to stop life’s greedy nature, to share what we make so others may know the meaning? Defiance is only a word, it is a place, it is the way which we live day in and day out that DEFINES this…….. Defiance, may our prize someday be only so sweet!!