TDSP 2-01: A Hug is Worth a Thousand Words

02/23/21 • 7 min

To embrace another person is one of the things that defines our humanity and connects us to each other, both literally and emotionally. And a world full of full-contact hugs would be a wonderful place (as long as respect and social context boundaries were honored, of course). In this very short episode, I describe our family heritage of serial hugging that we are passing down from generation to generation.

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Storing Up Treasures

A Christmas parable of sorts, this is the true story of a few frustrating minutes on a cold December day in Maine as a man stares out the window of an old farmhouse and worries about the apparent contradictions of the season. But as he frets over the world's fixation with material gain, a pickup truck pulls into the driveway and he realizes once more what is really valuable in his life.

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TDSP 2-02: Goodnight Upside Down

A middle-aged man gets a birthday phone call from his father, and the two of them are transported back in time to relive a precious family tradition.
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