To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Here’s a pop music pop quiz: What’s the most frequently recorded song of all time, now estimated to have been covered by at least 2,200 different artists? Hint: It also happens to be a song that was literally dreamed up by its composer. In 1965, Paul McCartney awoke one morning with a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here There’s a story about a pastor who became annoyed with a particular woman in his congregation. She claimed to have daily personal conversations with Jesus. More and more enthusiasts came to her house. They sang hymns and offered prayers of hope and desperation. He wondered if this was about to get out… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Dario DeLuca is quite a guy. The ruggedly handsome 60-year-old hails from Positano, Italy. He’s a neuroscientist who specializes in human consciousness, is fluent in 13 languages, and skillfully navigates the realm of financial investment. He’s also nuts about Lynda, his 60-year-old American girlfriend, with whom he enjoys deep conversations and… Read more »
Because of a tech concern, there is no podcast for today’s post. Author Rita Snowden remembers sitting in a café late one afternoon in a small village near Dover, England. As she was sipping her tea, she was suddenly overwhelmed by an astonishing fragrance. It was quite simply one of the most pleasant aromas she had ever smelled. “Where is that… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, who died last year at age 82, was one of the so-called Four Horsemen of the New Atheism. Along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens, he campaigned relentlessly for the discrediting of religion (Christianity in particular) as a valid way to… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here I love caves. I was in elementary school when I had my first chance to experience a real limestone cavern. I joined my family on a stroll through Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and I was hooked for life. More than 4,000 caves stretch for hundreds of miles beneath my home state… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here On a frigid night in January 1973, Senator John Stennis was mugged in Washington, D.C. He was accosted by two gun-wielding teenagers while walking between his car and the front door of his own house. After the assailants took his money, they announced, “We’re going to shoot you anyways.” One of… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Music historians call it Stevie Wonder’s “classic period.” Pop music fans simply call it miraculous. During a four-year span (1972-1976), the Motown singer/composer, who had just turned 21, churned out five albums of extraordinary, even explosive creativity. Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness’ First Finale, and Songs in the… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Hope is life’s extraordinary antidote for discouragement. That doesn’t mean that success always comes easily. Winston Churchill was once asked what most prepared him to sustain his lonely fight against Adolph Hitler throughout the 1930’s (when many British leaders saw no danger in the Nazi regime), and how he found the courage to rally… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here For generations of toymakers, the Holy Grail was a doll which could talk. Thomas Edison gave it his best shot. During the late 1800s he planted actual phonograph records inside dolls. But the technology proved to be unreliable, and communication was limited to the single word “Mama.” Besides, an Edison talking… Read more »
