What is the wildest, light-affirming journey you've ever taken? Jan introduces you to 21 year-old Jennifer who has given up on living and the family member, a dying woman who has experienced the worst evil mankind has to offer, who takes her granddaughter on one last journey to help her fall in love with life.

Ever experienced self-blame? In public? Jan shares his own journey to healing after self-doubt along with the story of a best man who badly needed to learn a powerful lesson we all need.

Jan introduces you to a priest who led by example on the steps of the cathedral., teaching both him and a group of children a powerful truth. It made all the difference in the world then as it will for you today.

In brevity can come enlightenment. Jan introduces you to the grace and clarity of this less-is-more form of poetry. Come meet Issa, a lay Buddhist priest and classical writer of the 18th Century, and Sonia Sanchez who teaches us of love from her life in 1943 Harlem.

How do you see your place in the world? Jan shares the story of a woman, a poet who wrote what many consider the world's oldest novel and from a thousand years ago she inspires with her answer to the question!

We are part of an unbroken spirit that stretches ever back and ever forward. Jan shares with you a very special dream his sister had, and how she taught him to not only hold his childhood self but connect with an unending family in a way each of us can.

Another birthday and are we too old to sing rock n'roll? What do we see in the mirror as we grow older? Jan introduces us to a New Zealand-British poet who allows us to discover the incandescent joy of life's 'weathering.'

*LKF-Little Known Facts. Learning more about someone helps us know them more, understand them better. The same works for ourselves. But who knew, as Jan shares in this week's pocast, that the lesson would come from Abe Lincoln?!

Many listeners missed the very start of this now 70+ episodes (and counting) weekly podcast. Here again is the tale of Simon who teaches all of us that answers and gifts we seek may be right in front of us waiting to be recognized and celebrated!