Life brings with it grief and loss that lead us to deepening our purpose and love.

Jan shares the story of a hit musical recently featured on PBS in a new London production that reminds us how essential feeling "all the feels" of life can be to our health and to our hope.

Jan shares with us a recent visit to a dying woman and his interaction with her daughter and how, together, they discovered the best gift each of us has to give another at all times.

Witty, incandescent art that shakes the way you look at the world, that was the gift of composer, theatre artist, William Finn who died recently. Never heard of him? You have now.

Jan celebrates the ways Finn's music and truth lifted his spirit and helped him reframe family, life, and love.

Our days can become so hectic and tension-filled, we need a shot of positivity.

Besides this podcast, Jan shares suggestions from a variety of artists, designers, and writers, small ways we can each find an oasis of uplift in our daily lives.

At times we wrestle with darkness and despair. After all, it's part of life.

Jan shares a personal story of a dying woman with whom he recently spent time and how she found balance and light in the lives she has touched, a hope and positivity expressed in poems he highlights on this week's podcast.

How do we use this element by which we measure life-Time? How we do brings meaning and purpose to our lives.

Jan shares the precious advice his father gave him at the end of his life--a gift of love.

Those with autism can feel pressure differently than others.

Jan shares the true story of two players on TV's reality show SURVIVOR, and how one person taking action to help regulate another can inspire all of us to reach beyond ourselves to help make the world more whole, bringing the healing of the human touch.

Every year several world organizations study the data to find where in the world people are the happiest and why?

Jan shares the newly released latest findings and shows just how poisonous negativity can be and how powerful positivity is in changing the quality of our lives right now, today.