A Soulful Journey

"The trouble with love is that many people confuse it with gastritis.  After the ailment has been cured they find out they've been married to a girl they wouldn't be caught dead with." - Groucho Marx This is when the "rubber hits the road" and real love makes scaling a mountain possible.

For nearly 10 years the mother daughter team of Naomi and Wynonna Judd was one of the most popular acts in country music.  But the duo’s relationship was not always harmonious. Naomi explains: Before a 1984 show in Denver, Wy and I were fighting because she had forgotten her outfit. We were mere minutes from showtime, and I opened fire with both guns. “You stupid kid,” I screamed.  “Are you ever going to grow up and did your act together?”” I’m not singing with you tonight,” she shrieked back at me. Flailing her arms in the air, we were close to blows when our manager, Ken Stilts, stepped in. ”Ladies,” he intoned, “there are several thousand people who’ve paid money to hear you tonight. You must decide whether you going to rise to professionalism or be a disappointment to everyone, including me.” Ken’s calm manner struck a nerve. Suddenly Wy and I recognized that if we were to survive, we could have to feel responsibility to our fans.  – Naom...

Two women and two men are in a shared taxi traveling to Jerusalem.   One is a yeshiva student.   The man sitting in the front seat turns to adders the student, “Excuse me, but I’d like to ask you a question.   Do you really believe that the world is over 5700 years old?”   “Absolutely,” answered the student.   “How can you believe that?   I am a geologist and I assure you that the world came into being much longer than 5700 years ago.   It cannot be.” The student responded, “If you believe that, then how can you call yourself a Jew?” “I am 100% Jewish,” the man answered.   “I am part of the Jewish people, history and land, I speak Hebrew, I feel Jewish…” At this point the driver interjects, “I agree with him.  Since when do you have to believe in the creation of the world to be Jewish?” In a few moments the taxi is full of heated arguments debating Jewishness.   When the taxi finally arrives in Jerus...