To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “In due time.” That was one of my dad’s favorite Dad-isms. I have vivid memories of my brothers and I approaching our father after dinner. He would be reading the newspaper, since Dad read every single page of the Indianapolis Star every day. We would humbly present our requests. Could we… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Little more than a century ago, the city of Vienna imagined itself the embodiment of modern enlightenment. Philosophers were redefining the way people answered life’s most important questions. Avant-garde painters and musicians were redirecting the fine arts. Sigmund Freud was virtually inventing the field of psychology. It seemed to many like a brave new… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Pinky: What are we going to do tonight, Brain?Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try and take over the world! That was the opening exchange of every episode of Pinky and the Brain, the iconic 1990s animated series about a pair of genetically enhanced laboratory mice. Every now and… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Eva Hart was just seven years old when she and her parents boarded Titanic. When the “unsinkable” passenger liner collided with an iceberg on April 14, 1912, Eva and her mother were escorted to a lifeboat by her father. That was the last time they ever saw him. Hart was one… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Years ago a workplace research group from California approached some loggers in the Pacific Northwest. They made what seemed like an offer too good to be true: “We’ll double your pay for the next month. All you have to do is swing your axe so the handle hits the tree instead of… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here No hugging. No learning. That was the unofficial motto of Seinfeld, the sitcom that TV Guide once rated simply as the best television series ever. After its 1989 pilot, Seinfeld ran for nine seasons – 172 episodes in all, most of them 22 minutes plus commercials. Today the show lives on in… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Does God seem to have something against Florida this fall? The Sunshine State had only begun to recover from its encounter with Hurricane Helene two weeks ago when another monster cyclone formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Milton is ravaging central Florida even as this reflection arrives in your inbox,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the course of a single year (1905), a young man named Albert Einstein submitted several papers to a German physics journal. This was surprising, since Einstein had no scientific pedigree, no university affiliation, and no laboratory to conduct experiments. He was employed at the time in the Swiss national patent… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Community sports days in rural India occasionally feature a truly unusual event. It’s called the slow cycling race. The goal of the race is not to take off as soon as the gun sounds, but to move as slowly as possible. In fact, it’s best if you can remain completely still on… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Twenty-eight days from now, every American citizen age 18 and older will be free to do what approximately half the world can only dream about. We will have the opportunity to choose our own leaders. But this astonishing privilege once again seems to be compromised by a pervasive fog of disappointment,… Read more »