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Porchlight

Porchlight with Tom Roznowski offers WFIU listeners a weekly invitation to visit the familiar and the forgotten through recorded song, original story, and the occasional everyday expert.

Ours is a diverse culture and divided country in many ways, but there is one characteristic that securely unites most all of us as Americans. We have way too much stuff.
  • It’s not until later in life that you realize how short a decade really is.
  • We spend an inordinate amount of money, effort, and time securing a daily cup of coffee. The caffeine effect is a little less than 5 hours for an 8 oz. serving.
  • A painting communicates and connects without words, without sound. Just one sense and your feelings.
  • Perhaps we might consider ourselves mammals first, humans second.
  • With daily comic strips, it’s either a laugh with the next installment or a problem that may not be solved until tomorrow. The lesson either way is that life is short.
  • Books allow us to communicate the deepest meaning between time periods, between cultures, between total strangers. Wherever it is, we can be there.
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    Acting up and acting out are usually considered behavioral problems.
  • Cash money rewards conscious action in the moment. You have it. You spend it. Or not.
  • More than anything else, story helps us define what is true and what is worth remembering.
  • The steps taken immediately before a leap will determine the distance covered.