To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Humanity’s most heartbreaking conflict produced one of its most heartwarming stories. Today there are at least a dozen memorials in five different countries that honor Wojtek, the bear that went to war. The saga of Wojtek (pronounced VOY-tech) began in the spring of 1942, when thousands of Polish soldiers and civilians… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In the late 1970s, commercial deep sea fishermen made an amazing discovery off the coast of Australia. Nearly a mile beneath the surface there were vast schools of a large, reddish-orange species of fish. They were delicious. Their filets, which exuded almost no fishy smell or taste, delighted chefs. From a… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. In 2008, three former college schoolmates living in San Francisco came up with a novel idea. Since hotel accommodations in the Bay Area were both hard to find and exceedingly expensive, they devised a website that would help out-of-towners locate short-term living quarters and breakfast – essentially, an opportunity for guests to… Read more »
