The Chance To Love Everything

Tucked away in Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is a mecca of good food and communical spirit knownb as the Red Shoe Pub. The key ingredient here is the joy at its heart--the live local musicans who serve up a hearty meal of the Celtic music of their roots. Jan shares his visit highlights and the beauty of the Rankin family-founded pub in honoring and breathing new life into their rich culture. Places like this bring each of us alive.

In a world of divisions, it's good to shine the spotlight on those who are mending and connecting.Jan shares the true story of the day a Catholic Priest in LA's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels blessed him and, in front of all assembled, humbly asked for a blessing in return...from the Rabbi.

Who are the people you remember who have touched your life? And keep on doing so? Sometimes we keep returning to the lessons they taught us because they are that unforgettable. Jan shares the true story of one such man.

Sometimes looking at the world with a poet's eyes allow us to renew our connection to beauty. Jan shares two poems from Mary Oliver that remind us the gifts that nature has to share and, just maybe, how we can fall in love with more than we thought we ever might.

Who inspires you? People from the past and today can alter the way we see the world by changing what we beleive can be possible.Jan shares the story of a woman whose gravestone he encountered in a small New England town. She is someone we all should know, by the name she chose!

As we begin Season 10 I share the original trailer and first episode (back in the pandemic) with my listeners because how we start things in life, including this podcast, matters.

They say there are only 2 things that are absolute in life--death and taxes. They are wrong. Each of us wiil experience pain. Jan shares one of his most shattering life experiences and how he came to find the light inside the pain that can help each of us power hurt into meaning and meaning into success.

When the world makes you weary, sometimes a good poem can get inside what's bothering you, define yo, and lift you home. Two poems that inspire Jan to reconnect in moments of defining oneself and times of weariness.

Each of us has experiences that shape the way we see ourselves and the role we want to play in life.Jan shares the story of Richard Hunt, a welding genius, whose art has taught the world what freedom can look like when you fashion with your hands the visions of your heart.

At the heart of life is love and laughter and loss, especially shared with our friends. Jan shares the eprsonal story of what he learned about the power of friendship from one of the most unlikely of characters on Broadway played by a friend of his daughter's.