Suddenly Single

 I think therefore I am human and therefore subject to human ideals and frailties. I have an imagination. I am not a great poet, musician or story teller but others among us are. I have often prayed. Prayed for mercy, for forgiveness for intervention and for relief. I have even prayed that god is real and forgive me for my doubts… but at the end of my prayers there is only me. How will I cope with the reality that befalls me? The loss of the person I love? The pet? The thing? Sometimes things work out. Sometimes they don’t. If things work out you say your prayers were answered. If they don’t, god works in mysterious ways… in either or any case, those who believe in a supernatural, intentional and responsive god will see that god intervened. Or if he didn’t fix things, it’s because they didn’t pray long enough or loud enough. People say they found their faith or they lost their faith or they are in some process between the two. People are also quick to say that their god, their reli...

How The Beatles made ‘Rubber Soul’ and broke up with their past : All Songs Considered : NPR Music : NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/10/06/nx-s1-5991793/all-songs-beatles-rubber-soul How The Beatles made ‘Rubber Soul’ and broke up with their past : All Songs Considered : NPR Music : NPR ​ ​ Robin Hilton October 6, 2026 5:00 AM ET The Beatles Apple Corps A lot of people cite the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band as the most significant turning point for The Beatles, when the band took its biggest creative leap. But, really, that turning point began with Rubber Soul in 1965. At that point, The Beatles were still playing a lot of cover songs; they were touring and focused on music that they could play live. Beatlemania was in full swing and the Fab Four were working at a breathless pace. The band had recorded and released about a half ...

About 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are tied to these infections — most of them preventable https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/05/health/cancer-cases-caused-by-infection-study-wellness?utm_source=cnn_Five+Things+PM&utm_medium=email About 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are tied to these infections — most of them preventable ​ ​ Millions of new cancer cases around the world may be caused by infections that are either treatable or preventable, suggesting that the cancer could have been avoided altogether. That’s according to new research published in the journal The Lancet Oncology , which found that roughly 1 in 8 cancer cases around the world may be linked to infections – many of which can be prevented through vaccines, screening or relatively straightforward treatments. “We can intervene before it gets anywhere near cancer,” said Gary Clifford, the study’s senior author and an epidemiologist at the International Agency for Research on ...