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Stress is our response to demands and perceived threats in our environment and has become so routine that we just accept the burden as normal. While temporary stress can be helpful, prolonged stress is detrimental.  Beyond simply increasing your heart rate, chronic stress diminishes your immune system and increases inflammation. What’s more, mental health issues may start cropping up. Usually, the problem is a perfect storm of ongoing external stressors and inadequate coping mechanisms.

Nicholas Fox Weber, in this deft, entertaining, and brilliant rumination on art and technology, writes of the iPhone as the essence of the Bauhaus principles of form following function - of honesty of design and materials that reflect the true nature of objects and buildings, favoring linear and geometrical forms; adhering to line, shape, and colors; synthesizing art to modern times; the fusion in design of art and technology.

In the early 1920s, surrounded by the roaring streets of avant-garde Paris, Piet Mondrian began creating what would become some of the most recognizable abstract paintings of the 20th century. With rectangles of primary colors against a dazzling white background, this was geometric abstraction in its purest form. These revolutionary compositions exhilarated, intoxicated, confused, and enraged the international public—and changed the course of modern art forever.

Ever wonder what it's like to be Lutheran in different areas? In this podcast, we'll explore different regions through interviewing pastors and laymen. We'll not only find out what it's like being a Lutheran where they are, we'll also find out more about the area--what's good, what's bad and what it's like to raise a family there. We'll also have the chance to get the inside scoop on what's fun to see and do in the area: fun activities, good restaurants and other hidden gems. Join me in this journey: discover new places, hear from interesting guests and receive encouragement in your pilgrimage...