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To enjoy the music in today’s post, please click the link above in your email, or click here. Today’s post comes from my friend, Joe Nagy. The ancient Greeks had a saying: “Call no man happy until he is dead.” The implication is that a change of fortune may make even the happiest person miserable. They also warned us that much of our suffering … Continue reading A Well Lived Life (by Joe)
To enjoy the music in today’s post, please click the link above in your email, or click here. Here are two more golden record selections for our Just A Thought flight into eternity. Sit back and enjoy. “Rhapsody In Blue,” written by George Gershwin, video clip here from the movie, Rhapsody in Blue — selected by Jeff Brain. “As Times Goes By,” written by … Continue reading More Music For The Ages
In order to enjoy the music in today’s post please click the link above in your email. Or click here. “When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.” ― Rudolf Karl Bultmann True enough. And I have to admit, Dr. Bultmann, it feels that … Continue reading Over the Rainbow
“True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.” — Isabel Allende Recently I wrote a post about NASA’s Voyager spaceship which, as planned, will soon lose contact with the NASA team that’s been tracking it. It carries a number of artifacts from Earth, including a selection of recorded music. I was fascinated by the idea of how to select music that might represent our human civilization … Continue reading Music for Eternity (Part 1)
I’m a grandfather to seven-year-old Sam who possesses an endless fascination with dinosaurs. Did you know — if all of Earth’s time from the very beginning of the dinosaurs to today was compressed into 365 days (one calendar year), the dinosaurs would have appeared January 1 and become extinct the third week of September. ~ Dinosaurs were here for 165 million years. According to this … Continue reading What We Learn From Dinasaurs and Carl the Caterpillar