Tag: Bright

Book Review: ‘Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of New Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media’

Before reality television, people satisfied the urge to see new places and do new things by reading about the exploits of risk takers, including explorers. Before the internet or radio, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the way to do that was through the newspaper. Back then, the modern mass-market daily newspaper was…


Freedom of Money—How Will You Spend Your Freedom

How would you love to celebrate your financial freedom when you have finally achieved it? Well, we all dream of cherishing this privilege, but few achieve it. So, your efforts to maintain financial discipline and cultivate healthy saving habits have paid off. What’s next? Of course, you would love to consolidate your wealth as you…


Book Recommendation: ‘Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World’

As I pen this recommendation, I’m looking out my home office window to a world of green from the trees that stand tall to greet the day. Perhaps they will serve as inspiration for a book that calls readers to a deeper connection with nature. I suspect so. I’m reminded of another recent review: Karen…


‘It’s So Rare’: Utah Woman Encounters Young Mountain Lion on a Hike and It Takes Her Breath Away

A woman had a close encounter with nature’s majesty on a hike in the Utah mountains when she came across a beautiful young mountain lion that took her breath away. Originally from Michigan, 40-year-old Denise Peterson moved to Utah to be closer to the mountains and mountain lions. In mid-April this year, Peterson was stunned,…


Hilarious Video Captures Police Officers Mistaking Goat’s Cry for Someone Yelling ‘Help!’

In hilarious body camera footage shared by Oklahoma police, two diligent officers mistake a goat’s cry for a person in distress, ultimately ending with comical results. On May 8, Enid police officers David Sneed and Neal Storey responded to a report that a concerned citizen had heard cries for help coming from a farm. As…


Whale Day Spa: First Time Ever Humpbacks Videoed Treating Themselves to Full Body Scrub on Seafloor

It’s sort of like a day spa. But with more whales. And a whole lot more water. Along Australia’s Gold Coast, for the first time ever, humpback whales have been video-recorded showing a behavior that is strangely satisfying to watch: it involves them exfoliating underwater by scrubbing their backs and sides clean on the sandy…


Visions of the Frontier: The Photography of Kirsten Griffin

The first time she picked up the camera was to capture her newborn daughter. From that moment on, Kirsten Griffin fell in love with photography. Nature’s flora and fauna are often her subject matter, as she finds them to be filled with beauty. Her approach is to be present in the moment and let the…


W.F.K’s Travers’s Portrait of Lincoln: A Rich Reminder of His Presidency

When W.F.K. Travers’s 9-foot-tall painting of Abraham Lincoln was first unveiled to America at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it stood alongside Gilbert Stuart’s “Lansdowne Portrait” of George Washington—and together, the likenesses of America’s two most esteemed presidents stunned viewers. The oil-on-canvas portrait of Lincoln was painted from life in 1865, mere months…


How a Russian Aristocrat Stripped His Title and Left for America to Serve the Poor

It was a time that called for tenderness and tears, but it was also a time that demanded readiness and strength. The young man was about to leave for America. Seeing his mother crying, he hesitated. He suggested staying home. His mother yelled out fiercely through her tears: “Mitri! Mitri! I am ashamed of you!”…


Innovative New Cosmetic Center Takes Holistic Approach to Cultivating Beauty

In the ancient world, beauty was defined by harmonious proportion, where all elements combined into a satisfying, soul-stirring balance. It was an ideal to aim for, and a virtue to embody. Today, there is a saying that beauty is only skin deep. With this notion, it’s no wonder why we see the pursuit of beauty…