Having a dream and not accepting ‘no’ as a defeat can be life-defining

NeSmith brings message to college-bound Tallulah Falls grads

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Graduation speaker Dink NeSmith, co-owner of Community Newspapers, Inc., utilizes a soap bubble machine during his speech, noting how bubbles are like dreams. NeSmith told the Tallulah Falls School graduates to remember a “no” can be a stumbling block or it can be a stepping-stone in their path to making their dreams come true.
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Graduation speaker Dink NeSmith, co-owner of Community Newspapers, Inc., utilizes a soap bubble machine during his speech, noting how bubbles are like dreams. NeSmith told the Tallulah Falls School graduates to remember a “no” can be a stumbling block or it can be a stepping-stone in their path to making their dreams come true.

Everyone at some point in life has been told “no,” but sometimes that basic word of negativity can become one of motivation.

Dink NeSmith has not allowed “no” to be an absolute denial. The journalism i…