by Morning Reflections | Oct 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereOne of Richard Nixon’s most eloquent speeches was one that he never delivered.For that, we can all be thankful.On Friday, July 18, 1969, White House speechwriter William Safire put the finishing...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here According to a recent edition of Smithsonian Magazine, it “stands as the single most important piece of 20th century futurism.” The authors weren’t talking about Brave New World, 1984, The...
by Morning Reflections | Nov 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. On a cold winter night in Chicago in 1927, Buckminster Fuller calculated how long it would take for him to die of hypothermia in the frigid waters of Lake Michigan. He stood, despondent, on a...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
One hundred years ago, British author and philosopher H.G. Wells was one of the most lavishly optimistic thinkers on the planet.In his 1922 book A Short History of the World, he envisioned the dawning of a golden age. Even though the horrors of World War I had...
