Bits & Bytes

DAILY PRAYER: Dear God, We ask You to help us clearly and honestly express our thoughts and feelings with love. Give us the wisdom to listen carefully to others and understand their perspectives. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

AIR TRAVEL: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GZ8BJ8A6vI8 for something you maybe did not know.

LIFE’S BATTLES: If only we were all aware of this.

SMH: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xOUtOZrdlxg and prepare for schadenfreude.

SYRIA: On Saturday, Islamic rebels took control of the government. President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country.

• https://notthebee.com/article/assad-appears-to-be-out-in-syria-rebels-have-taken-over-damascus-and-weve-got-the-rundown-for-you

GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NcNLVcIYizI to hear a version of a story I heard in a communications class back in in 1978. In the version I heard, the elevator company tuned up the elevators repeatedly, but the tenants kept sending complaint slips to the super. The professor’s point was that when you can’t seem to solve a problem, it may be because you have not correctly defined the problem. By giving the tenants something to do while they waited for the elevator, the super solved his real problem, which was the complaint slips. I have thought of and used this wisdom very often in my life. It may have been the single most valuable thing I learned in graduate school.