by Morning Reflections | May 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThe most tragic survivor of the sinking of Titanic was surely J. Bruce Ismay.The dapper, mustachioed managing director of the White Star Line often chose to travel on the maiden voyage of each of his...
by Morning Reflections | May 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereFrances Jane Crosby, who was born in New York in 1820, developed a minor eye inflammation when she was six weeks old. Although there have been differing accounts of a local doctor’s efforts to...
by Morning Reflections | May 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereDuring the summer of 1862, while the Civil War was raging between North and South, Union General Daniel Butterfield was searching for a new way to signal “lights out” at the end of the...
by Morning Reflections | May 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIndianapolis International Airport is situated far enough outside the urban sprawl of the Hoosier capital that incoming jets fly right over local agricultural fields.Imagine that I am on a late summer...
by Morning Reflections | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereA lot of rock stars try to be cool and rebellious.Not many aspire to forge partnerships with business, religious, and political leaders in order to eradicate AIDS, poverty, and malaria in...
by Morning Reflections | May 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereTalk about a crazy job assignment.In 1835, a pair of pharmacists from the English town of Worcester were asked to recreate a fish sauce that a local dignitary said he had enjoyed on a visit to India.Lord...