During their more than two months of confinement, the miners and their determination to survive have inspired this country and riveted the world.
The recent decisions to designate large new marine reserve areas in the northwest Hawaiian Islands and the Florida Keys are important milestones, but we have a long way to go before we can be assured that the remaining seas will survive to inspire and support our descendants.
So, how do we ensure that these treasures survive to inspire our descendants and teach them about the many-layered complexities of life?
Washington himself may not have recognized just how radical those lines of 1776 and 1789 would prove to be, but he was the man who helped guarantee that they survived to inspire generations of radicals to come.
If a common message can be gleaned through the mayhem of distant battles, it is that fragments of human decency can survive the furies inspired by contested symbolic appropriations of a jealous Abrahamic god.
This long and lasting cultural aspect that we eat, breathe, and most dependently survive with has inspired varied questions of controversy.
There followed an intense five-year research period, with Salles crisscrossing America in search of every last surviving beat writer, artist and expert, meeting the surviving characters who inspired the fictional alter egos and faithfully retracing the route taken by Kerouac and his band of adventurers "in search of it".
That was when Kim's declaration inspired surviving comfort women in Korea, China, and elsewhere to come forward with their stories.
He single-putted the last eight greens, seemingly inspired by surviving a helicopter crash – the vehicle lost power after climbing to 200ft – less than a fortnight earlier.
Unbeknownst to Ms. Miller, that period of having survived unemployment together had inspired Mr. Nguyen to start saving for a ring.
The work is a set of memorial "inscriptions" inspired by surviving fragments of a cabalistic text lost in the Holocaust.
