Stuff I Learned Yesterday

On February 17, 2004 my wife and I were sitting in a nice restaurant getting ready to enjoy a steak dinner to celebrate my birthday. Shortly after we sat down she handed me a card. I opened up the card and read all the nice stuff that they put inside those things. I then read the nice words that Kari wrote about me...and then I noticed that she had written in an instruction for me to turn the card over for a surprise.

Surprise was an understatement. What do you think it was? If you guessed that it was her telling me that she was pregnant, you’re right. We had already had our daughter and we were perfectly content with her. We weren’t even trying to have another kid, so it was truly a surprise. Read More...

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Last week I received a text message that is of the kind that you never want to get. It was letting me know that a friend of mine had succomed to cancer. She was 68. Let me tell you about her.

Her name was Bochy Gray and she was one of the kindest people I ever met. She loved to serve others, she loved her family, she was amazingly loyal, and she had a great smile.

You may recall in episode 42 of Stuff I Learned Yesterday I told you about a vocal quartet I was in when I was in my early 20’s and I was the only member under 50. Bochy was also in that group. I first met Bochy when I started attending church with one of my friends. Bochy and her husband, Bob, were very talented singers and musicians. When they asked me to start singing with them it was an easy decision. Read More...

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Welcome to Stuff I Learned Yesterday. My name is Darrell Darnell, I eat bananas by opening up the bottom end of the peel, and I believe that if you aren’t learning, you aren’t living. In today’s episode of Stuff I Learned Yesterday I’m pleased to bring you another installment of the Friday Forum.

Friday Forum

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About two months ago, my husband, Clint, and I were invited over to ur good friends Darrell and Kari Darnell’s home to discuss podcasting and Golden Sprial Media. The purpose of this meeting was not out of the ordianary for our families. As many of the long-time listeners know, Clint and Darrell started GSM with The Fringe podcast during the show’s time on Fox network. I went to the meeting excited for Darrell and Kari, as their family had recently began pursuing Golden Spiral Media full-time.

I attended the meeting casually, and viewed it as an opportunity to catch up with great friends and to be included in the next round of shows that their family and mine would most likely soon be immersed in – for podcasting purposes. As we sat down to dinner, the conversation drifted from catching up, to business. I listened intently as Darrell began discussing THIS podcast, Stuff I Learned Yesterday. My interest was peaked at this point, because I really enjoy this podcast from a casual listener’s perspective, and feel lie I’m having a conversation with Darrell every time I get a chance to listen to an episode. I believe I told him how much I enjoyed his recount of his engagement story to Kari and told him how I have always admired his natural ease with storytelling and drawing deep insight from seemingly mundane everyday occurrences. Read More...

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Previously on SILY. Haha, I just wanted to hear myself say that.

But for real, on yesterday’s episode, episode 122, Darrell asked two great questions that I’m going to reply to.

Well okay, one statement that I’ll reply to and one question that I’ll answer.

Statement: Just because an opportunity is a good one doesn’t make it the right one.

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