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Porchlight
What is happiness? And who has it, and why?

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.

  • Among their many other benefits to humanity is the fact that over the centuries trees have been used to create countless theater stages and musical instruments.
  • As cars are becoming safer to drive, we are becoming less safe driving them.
  • From source to sea, the course of a river can provide life and explain it, as well.
  • Even when you are exploring and unsure of a destination, signposts and maps can prove very helpful. But what if this is new territory? The events of 2020 were global, which gives a new meaning to the meaning of destination.
  • One of the most difficult adjustments during this past year? Limiting and navigating personal contact. There is clearly more acceptance for this than there is understanding.
  • There are no guarantees in life. But when there are no guarantees of life and that awareness is shared globally and simultaneously, it does tend to get your attention. Being a survivor may seem with a simple choice, but with it comes the challenge of facing what you’re now left with.
  • In the wake of the pandemic, a deeper appreciation and a broadened perspective. Visits from Pops Staples, Marcel Proust, and Burt Lancaster.
  • 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.
  • From when rock n’ roll was still considered dangerous for those who loved it.
  • Neil Young has been at times hard to listen to. But no one can doubt his honesty in trying to make us hear him.