Click here for an audio version! Dear Friend, Sometimes I look in the mirror and focus on the deepening wrinkles across my face. Other times I notice that I move slower on the tennis court than I used to. I imagine the future and what it will feel like to ride the...
Dear Friend, When Michaelangelo was asked how he created his Statue of David, he answered, “I just saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” In From Strength to Strength, Arthur C. Brooks says you are thinking about it wrong if you...
Hi Friend, I once visited my doctor, Lee Rice, who is as much a mentor as my physician. I told him I felt like pieces of my life were falling apart. I was going through a romantic breakup, I had eaten more pounds of French fries than fresh produce in the preceding six...
Hi Friend, Do you sometimes sit with a group of friends as they trade tales of their big adventures? And do you ever think to yourself, “My life is not that splashy?” I’ve always loved listening to great speakers. When I was a kid, my dad would take me for a long...
Friend, Have you read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? In one scene of that wonderful book, four children are living with a professor they’ve only just met. The siblings were sent to his home in the English countryside during Operation Pied Piper, which relocated...
