To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Harvey Ross Ball’s most famous artistic creation took just 10 minutes to complete, and it earned him a mere $45. But it’s been worth a billion smiles. In 1963, Ball, a freelance artist guiding his own advertising firm, was approached by the marketing director of State Mutual Life Assurance Company of… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It’s one of the shortest, simplest, and most imaginatively titled animated films of all time. Bambi Meets Godzilla was the solo creation of a young artist named Marv Newland. The 1969 film, which is black-and-white and hand-drawn, lasts a mere 90 seconds. That includes all the credits (in which Newland identifies himself… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When Paul O’Neill was introduced in 1987 as the new CEO of Alcoa, the world’s largest producer of aluminum, market expectations plummeted. O’Neill, after all, was a former government bureaucrat, little more than an obscure policy wonk. He knew next to nothing about the aluminum business. Expectations sank even lower when he took… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A few years ago, Stephan Pastis – creator of the syndicated cartoon strip Pearls Before Swine – depicted his gentle-hearted character Pig in a theology classroom. His assignment? “Define heaven.” Pig submits this answer: “All the dogs I’ve ever owned rush out all at once and start licking my face as… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Benigno Aquino’s family and friends begged him not to return to Manila. As the exiled leader of the opposition movement to Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, he had already been imprisoned for over seven years. Marcos had granted him permission to seek medical care in the United States. Now Aquino, widely known as Ninoy, was… Read more »