Beauty Beyond the Landscape


Reader,

Episode 228 of our You Were Made for This podcast is now live.

In it I talk about my recent vacation trip to Ireland. It’s less about scenery and landscape, and more about relationships. I think you’ll find it encouraging.

For example, I reflect upon what encouraged me on our trip. Things like:

  • Beauty found in relationships
  • The man who wore bib overalls all the time
  • The most common expression I heard from people in Dublin
  • Several gray-haired men who make art all day long, hunched over a small workbench
  • Two traveling sisters, both widows, the younger caring for the older
  • A surprise at the rear of our plane flying home somewhere over the Atlantic.


Click here to listen in.

Until next time, I wish you all the joy that you can wish.*

John Certalic

*The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene 2

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