Pushcart Educator Named CNN Hero Of The Year
Efren Peñaflorida, who started a “pushcart classroom” in the Philippines to bring education to poor children as an alternative to gang membership, has been named the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year. CNN’s Anderson Cooper revealed Peñaflorida’s selection at the conclusion of the third-annual “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute” at the Kodak Theatre in H

The Inner Landscape Of Beauty
The heart is where the nature, feeling and intimacy of a life dwell, and without heart the world grows suddenly cold. In its desire for beauty, it reaches toward the beyond. This poignant desire for beauty suggests that beauty is the homeland of the heart…. When God created [the heart], it was fashioned for an eternal kinship with beauty; God knew that the human heart would always be wedded to him

For Warmth
I hold my face between my hands no I am not crying I hold my face between my hands to keep my loneliness warm two hands protecting two hands nourishing two hands to prevent my soul from leaving me in anger - Thich Nhat Hanh

Stillness
The stillness: Into the rocks it pierces- the cry of the cicada. - Basho

Bach’s Bible
Bach’s compositions, Dr. Thomas Rossin says, stemmed from his private faith — a faith evidenced by Bach’s handwritten notes in his Bible. Hear about the Bible’s nomadic journey and its possible influence of his Mass in B Minor — what Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan holds up as an example of the “best we’ve ever done.”