Thank you for joining us for the Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, August the 11th, 2022.

The article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum.

My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better.

Your impact was incredible.

I love you so much. This is how John Travolta paid tribute

to Olivia Newton-John, his co-star in the movie Musical, Greece, after she passed away this week.

Travolta was just one of many to honor the popular actress and singer in recent days. Newton-John won

four Grammy Awards, recorded five number one hits,

produced two number one albums, and sold more than 100 million records. She was initially

diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992 and suffered recurrences in 2013 and 2017. She fought the

disease courageously and will long be remembered for her musical gifts

and personal grace. Because of her long illness, Newton John was once asked, have you contemplated

your death? She replied, we all know we are going to die. I know we spend our lives denying it,

she added, it's extremely personal. I find it hard to put into

words. I feel we are part of one thing. I have had experiences with spirits or spirit life and felt

the spirit world and have heard things that I believe there is something that happens.

She further explained. It's almost like we're part of the same computer

and we go back to the main battery. I don't have a definite definition of what it is. I think there

is a great knowingness out there and we become part of it. I know that the energies of the people

you love will be there. I think that all the love will be there. She added,

I'm sort of looking forward to that, not now, but when it happens. Some opinions don't change

our lives in consequential ways. For example, famed economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930

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