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“You’re one of a kind… thankfully.” -Don Rickles “After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.” -final sentence in A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one instead.”Continue reading “Oners”

“Which is worth more, Kind of Blue from Miles Davis, or the third Boston album? It depends on your taste. I hope we can agree, though, that the fact that Miles spent four days on his album and Tom spent eight years on his is irrelevant…Freelancers are close to their work, and it’s easy to tell ourselves that whatContinue reading “Valuable Work”

“Trust is the new oil.” -Doug Shapiro Trust and curatorial prowess have always been valuable assets. In our new world of AI, they are priceless

And I listen for the voice inside my headNothin’, I’ll do this one myself -“State Of Love And Trust”, song by Pearl Jam Giving up the search and realizing the cavalry isn’t coming is refreshing and empowering. You no longer seek external validation or to get picked. You no longer analyze what everything means. You noContinue reading “Be The Cavalry”

“We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven; the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.Or how ripe figs begin to burst.And olives on theContinue reading “Easy To Be Happy”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” -Teddy Roosevelt “You have to run your own race. Problems begin the moment you start comparing your results to someone who is playing under different conditions.  The 40-year-old entrepreneur with three kids has different constraints than the single 27-year-old.  A painter with 20 years of practice shouldn’t be theContinue reading “Faulty Comparison”

“The solution isn’t coming. The solution is already here…In a rapidly evolving world, hope is a natural response when things are always getting better/getting worse.Acting like we have what we need already, though, gives us the chance to take action right here and right now.” -Seth Godin Stop thinking you need something else.  Stop waitingContinue reading “Something Else”

… Well I told you once and I told you twiceBut ya never listen to my adviceYou don’t try very hard to please meWith what you know it should be easy … Well this could be the last timeThis could be the last timeMaybe the last timeI don’t know, oh no, oh no – “The Last Time”,Continue reading “This Could Be The Last Time”

You will never regret showing up and supporting your friends. And sometimes, like tonight, the play/reading will be awesome, your friends and the rest of the cast will be awesome, and you’ll run into some awesome people who are also there because they showed up too. Go Show Up. Go See Live Theatre.

Choose your attitude and you get to choose your past (your view of it) and your present (finding opportunities), which then shapes your future. H/t to my friend Joe for the image above and to Billy Oppenheimer’s always excellent Six at Six Newsletter for the Jay Wright story below… Late in the 2016 NCAA Men’sContinue reading “Jay Wright On Attitude”