Tell Me About Tomorrow

TELL ME ABOUT TOMORROW

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The year was 1977. The top selling cars were the Ford LTD and the Chevy Impala. The top movies were Star Wars and Saturday Night Fever. Gas was 65 cents a gallon. Stephen King published The Shining, and Farrah Fawcett published the poster. Meanwhile, over at NASA, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were carried aloft for a five-year mission. Yet here we are, 47 years later, and they’re still going strong. Voyager I is 15.2 billion miles from Earth; Voyager II is 12.7 billion miles away, and both are traveling at about 35,000 miles-per-hour. And as amazing as all that is, that’s not what I want to talk with you about in this program. I want to talk with you about the payload they both carry—specifically, the golden record.

Episode 259 - Voyager's Golden Record

De Madrid a ParÍs

De Madrid a París

Here’s a childhood question for you. And I should qualify that—for the most part I’m talking to people who were kids during the 60s, and who shared the books they read with their own children.  Here’s the question: What do Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon, Kenneth Robeson, Laura Lee Hope, and Victor Appleton have in common? Hopefully, you remember some of those names. The answer is that they’re all well-known authors to anyone who read The Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, Doc Savage, the Campfire Girls, The Happy Hollisters, and a few others. The other thing they have in common? None of them exist, and they never did. They’re all pseudonyms. Here's why.

Episode 274-Who Authors Really Are

Keep High - Edge the Ground

lost in my mind

I recently had a conversation about technology’s impact on research today. It’s an argument I could make myself—that technology has resulted in access to more data and information. For example, before the invention of moveable type and the printing press, the only books that were available were chained to reading tables in Europe’s great cathedrals—they were that rare and that valuable. 

BUT: Does technology give me access to BETTER data and information? I believe the answer to that is no, for a very specific reason: It leaves out the all-important human element in the knowledge molecule, the element that makes sense of the data and then converts it to information. Have a listen.

Episode 290-The Research Myth

The Times Before and Those Ahead    


I walked the path where shadows fall,  
Through autumn leaves and crumbling walls,  
Where echoes hum of laughter past,  
Of moments built to never last.  
A photograph in fading light,  
A lullaby that sang me night,  
Each memory a thread I hold—  
A story worn, but still untold.  

Oh, the times before, they shaped my soul,  
With broken dreams and fire in the cold.  
And the times ahead, they call my name,  
Like stars that burn through pouring rain.  
Between the past and what will be,  
I stand in love, in loss, in me—  
The times before and those ahead.  

I’ve danced with ghosts in empty rooms,  
Lit candles in the gathering gloom.  
I’ve kissed the scars that time has made,  
Learned how to love, and how to fade.  
But every dawn still paints the sky,  
With colors no regret can deny.  
A future walks on quiet feet,  
Whispering promises bittersweet.  

Oh, the times before, they shaped my soul,  
With broken dreams and fire in the cold.  
And the times ahead, they call my name,  
Like stars that burn through pouring rain.  
Between the past and what will be,  
I stand in love, in loss, in me—  
The times before and those ahead.  

I won’t forget the ones who stayed,  
The hands that pulled me through the fray.  
And though the road is long and steep,  
I’ll carry all I’ve loved and lost in sleep.  
For every ending holds a start,  
A rhythm beating in my heart—  
Not bound by time, but shaped by grace,  
I find my way through every place.  

Oh, the times before, they made me strong,  
They taught my heart to sing this song.  
And the times ahead, they shine so clear,  
With every hope I long to hear.  
So I will walk with open eyes,  
Beneath these ever-changing skies,  
The times before and those ahead—  
Together, they have led me.  

So here I stand, not lost, but found,  
On steady, though uncertain, ground.  
With yesterday’s voice and tomorrow’s thread—  
The times before and those ahead.

c Roger Shepard 2025

The Times Before and Those Ahead.mp3

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