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Cargando…Puccini Here is a story of Puccini, the great Italian writer of such classic operas as “Madame Butterfly” and “La Boheme.” It seems when Puccini was fairly young, he contracted cancer, and so he decided to spend his last days […]
(8 votos, media: 4,75 de 5)Cargando…10. Any and all compliments can be handled by simply saying “Why, thank you”. 9. Some people are working backstage, some are playing in the orchestra, some are on stage singing, some are in the audience as critics and some […]
(4 votos, media: 4,75 de 5)Cargando…COURAGE OF BEING COHERENT IN PUBLIC LIFE Hilaire Belloc, the well-known historian –author of “How The Reformation Happened”- and inseparable friend of Maurice Baring and G.K. Chesterton stood for the Liberals at South Salford in a General Election. Continue in […]
(4 votos, media: 4,00 de 5)Cargando…Arranging the speech having your real public in mind One Sunday in Northern Minnesota, there was a terrible blizzard blowing. The pastor struggled through deep snow to the little town’s church where he found a congregation of one: a farmer in the front pew solemnly chewing gum. […]
(2 votos, media: 5,00 de 5)Cargando…INFORMATION? Be encouraged This is a long, but good inspirational piece. It’ll give you something to ponder… When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished old case […]
(1 votos, media: 5,00 de 5)Cargando…COURAGE Hilaire Belloc, the well-known historian –author of “How The Reformation Happened”- and inseparable friend of Maurice Baring and G.K. Chesterton stood for the Liberals at South Salford in a General Election. Belloc’s Conservative opponents adopted the campaign […]
(Ninguna valoración todavía)Cargando…Follow Your Bliss Author Joseph Campbell often talked about “following your bliss.” I heard of a bus driver in Chicago who does just that. He sings while he drives. That’s right… sings! And I don’t mean he sings softly to […]
(Ninguna valoración todavía)Cargando…The Waste in Worry If we were to keep a record of all the things we worried about during a given period of time, we would discover-in reviewing them- that the great majority of our anticipated problems or troubles never […]
(1 votos, media: 4,00 de 5)Cargando…I read this story many many years ago. It was in a book from Fr Jesus Urteaga, Always Happy, published in the sixtees. But there were a few different details. Today I can see much more than anecdote so full […]