From our 80th episode:

Jan introduces you to a priest who one day taught Jan and a group of students a powerful truth on the steps of a Los Angeles cathedral. It made all the difference in the world back then, and has a powerful lesson for each of us today.

During our lives, advice can mean different things depending on where we are in the moment.

Jan shares several pieces of advice others have passed along that can help us bring more light into our lives and the lives of others. If only we are open enough to listen....

Sometimes people do something, sacrifice something, that inspires and elevates us with their humanity.

Jan shares a recent event at the Boston Marathon that uplifts the soul and inspires the heart.

How we greet each day may tell us something about how we might live the rest of it, or...is it the opposite?

Jan shares the personal story of how his children greeted each day when they were babies, and how that turned into a gift that keeps on giving.

IT's National Poetry Month. That is cause for celebration. Poetry can tune us into the simple, profound mysteries and joys we may oftentimes miss.

Jan shares three poems and the personal story of one of the poets, who teaches us how to honor this one precious life we have been given.

Mary Oliver famously asks, " Tell me, what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life."

Jan explores what is most precious in our lives:

the people, the work, the ideas-- asking--how do we honor them?

Adolescents often seek their place in the world and where to fit in. Adults do, too.

Jan shares a personal story of a single mom and her teenager and their struggle to fit in. He asks us all to flip the question-- not, how can we fit in, but how can we take what is unique about ourselves and make the world more fit?

In the darkest of times, we must turn on the light.

Jan shares findings from the 2026 World Happiness Report, suggesting where in the world people say they are happiest, and why?

"Write what should not be forgotten," says Isabel Allende.

Jan shares his experience working on his new novel and how writing can be a metaphor for living in full our most precious lives.

The Yiddish language shares much wit and wisdom, including how, in some ways, we are all connected: reminding us, "Di gantse velt iz eyn shtot." (The whole world is one town.)"

Jan shares some insights of a language once spoken by close to 13 million Jews before the HOLOCAUST, sayings from which we can still learn.