by Morning Reflections | Jul 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereMark Twain was on top of the world. In 1861 he officially became a riverboat captain on the Mississippi. Piloting a steamboat combined adventure, danger, and the sheer romance of chugging up...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThe United States Flag Code can be reduced to a single sentence: You’re doing it wrong.It’s a good bet that most of your fellow citizens, even on America’s 248th birthday, aren’t actually aware that...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThis is that special time of year when monarch butterflies grace our gardens, not to mention the milkweeds growing alongside farmers’ fields.For a long time, these beautiful, fragile creatures were at...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThere are child prodigies. And then there was Blaise Pascal.Born in 1623 in Rouen, France, Pascal was the son of a tax collector. By the time he turned 16, he had written a treatise on projective...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereFor most people, climbing Mt. Everest is a peak experience in more ways than one.Reaching the summit of the 29,032-foot mountain means you can justifiably claim to have stood “on top of the...
