There is design and order to all things. Consider the egg. Eggs are considered one of the healthiest foods on the planet. They contain small amounts of almost every vitamin and mineral needed to fuel the human body. Eggs usually hatch in multiples of sevens. The...
In 1879 Thomas Edison invented the light bulb and is quoted as saying, “We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will use candles.” Today, we have so much cheap electricity that it has created light pollution that it hinders our ability to see the stars at...
Henry Comstock, also known as “Old Pancake,” began prospecting for gold and silver in Nevada in the early 1850s. It was dangerous, exhausting work with deadly cave-ins, floods, and “boomtown violence” driven by greed. In 1858, he took possession of the cabin of his...
By: Dave Illingworth I think this story is okay to tell because my father, who was a Presbyterian minister, told it to me many years ago. An old man and a young boy decided to go into their village. The old man put the young boy on their donkey, and they headed out...
By: Dave Illingworth It was January, and the weather was very unpredictable. I had a dinner meeting in Orange County in the evening, so I booked an early-morning flight back to California. I left for the airport about 5:00 a.m. It was 21 degrees and a light,...
By: Dave Illingworth I was driving across Oklahoma on my way back to California for Christmas when a Breaking News story came over the radio that fourteen innocent people had been killed and seventeen others injured by two terrorists at a Christmas party in San...
This is a story told by Dr. Benjamin Alexander of American University. A medical student had dissected a cadaver completely. He then asked the professor, “I opened every organ of the body and found no soul. How can people say a soul exists?” The instructor asked him,...
By: Dave Illingworth Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar told a story about Bear Bryant and his quarterback, Roddy Osborne, at a football game between Alabama and Auburn that had a very dramatic ending. Listening to the story, I was confused—I have followed college...
By: Dave Illingworth In 1985 I was the General Manager of the Cincinnati region of Toyota Motors Sales, USA. We were having a regional dealer meeting in Traverse City, MI. I had invited retired offensive lineman Jerry Kramer and Fuzzy Thurston of the Champion...
By: Dave Illingworth In 1969 I started working at Chrysler Corporation in the Dodge division at the field office in Portland, OR. As a new hire, I was expected to work up to 18 months in the office and then be sent out as a district sales manager calling on...
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy set an unheard of goal for America when before a joint session of the United States Congress he declared, “I believe this nation should commit itself to achieve the goal before the decade is out of landing a man on the...
By: JDI - Dave Illingworth I once read about a nine-year-old boy whose father was a poor, uneducated farmer. The boy’s mother, his only source of inspiration and love, was dying. She struggled to whisper her last desperate words to the boy and his sister. She...