To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here If you’re a fan of rap music, you probably thought last Sunday’s halftime show was the best ever. If you’re not into rap, you probably wondered why so many people were so worked up about Kendrick Lamar’s performance – and how anyone could figure out what he was actually trying to… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Can love come into our lives by means of a bottle? Craig Sullivan, a lonely man in Scotland searching for his soulmate, certainly hoped so. Inspired by The Police’s song Message in a Bottle, Sullivan sent out over 2,000 message-bearing bottles a few summers ago along local beaches. The good news… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Greatness was on display at last Sunday’s Super Bowl. The greatest number of viewers ever to watch a TV show on a single network tuned in hoping to see great football, great commercials, and a great halftime show. The Super Bowl, which is fixated like no other cultural event on the… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 1983, the Westfield chain of shopping malls in Australia decided to stage an ultramarathon between the cities of Sydney and Melbourne. The race would begin and end, to no one’s surprise, at the Westfield mall in each metropolis. That made the distance a staggering 543.7 miles. World-class ultramarathon runners –… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here More than 20 years ago, my three sons and I got to take the trip of a lifetime. We drove from our home in central Indiana to Alaska and back (9,210 miles in all). Following the Alaska Highway, we traversed the densely forested “wilderness” of the western Canadian provinces and Yukon… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Brace yourself for some dreadful news. If today is an average day, approximately 15,000 children will die somewhere on our planet of preventable or treatable causes. That number should break our hearts. If losing a child represents the deepest sadness, imagine multiplying such grief by 15,000. It’s hard to know even… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here So, are you ready to slip into the passenger seat of a car that drives itself? Ready or not, here they come. Most major car companies have been investing heavily in the design and production of autonomous vehicles. Tesla, Ford, Honda, and Mercedes-Benz have led the way, not to mention start-ups… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the time John Adams and Thomas Jefferson helped launch America in the 1770s, they became close friends. But two decades later, as they each took a turn as America’s president, they morphed into bitter enemies. Adams won the election of 1796, narrowly defeating Jefferson, and thus became the nation’s second… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Last month the world lost a one-of-a-kind character. Arthur Blessitt, a self-described hippie minister, died on January 14 at the age of 84 after a lifetime of crisscrossing the planet hauling a 12-foot cross. By his own reckoning, he walked 43,340 miles – that’s about 86 million steps – through 323… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here 206.8 is an oddly specific number. But that’s the figure that emerged from the research of socio-economist Randall Bell, who diligently studied the habits of more than 5,000 people from all walks of life. Bell concluded that there is a particular daily practice that makes it 206.8% more likely that you… Read more »