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Now matter how bad the day is going, you always have a chance to begin again. Awareness is the key. You need to first realize things are going off the skids before you can course correct. A daily meditation practice might be helpful. Two sports analogies that might also be helpful: In hockey, at theContinue reading “Zambonis, Groundskeepers and Beginning Again”

“What’s worth doing even if I fail?” -Brene Brown “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, howeverContinue reading ““Even If I Never See It?””

As I walk through this wicked worldSearchin’ for light in the darkness of insanityI ask myself, “Is all hope lost?Is there only pain and hatred and misery?” And each time I feel like this insideThere’s one thing I wanna knowWhat’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding? Oh-ohWhat’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding?Continue reading “Peace, Love and Understanding”

The saga continuesWu-Tang, Wu-Tang Olympic torch flaming, we burn so sweetThe thrill of victory, the agony of defeat -song “Triumph” by Wu-Tang Clan “Whatever anyone does or says, for my part I’m bound to the good. In the same way an emerald or gold or purple might always proclaim: ‘whatever anyone does or says, IContinue reading “Wins and Losses”

I was far away, standing in the rain before the sleeping lion of Lucerne, a colossal, noble, stoic lion carved from the rock of a low cliff. The rain fell, obscuring tears. I knew that I would see Sam again somewhere in the landscape of dream, but at that moment I imagined I was backContinue reading “November 5th”

“At one point, when [Steve] Martin and [Robin] Williams had been dominating the table, he [Nichols] abruptly said, “Let’s change parts,” and had [Bill] Irwin read Martin’s role and [F. Murray] Abraham read Williams’s. He let the scene play for some time before saying, “Okay, that’s enough.” Martin nodded and said, “I learned a lot”Continue reading “Switch Roles”

“There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It’s rare that the same person hasContinue reading “Developing Taste”

It’s scary to make and then release your art to the world. But you know what’s even scarier? Not doing it because you’re afraid of what people might think. Feel the fear and do it anyway. Unleash your inner wolf.

A stunningly good poem by Kahlil Gibran that I’ll just let speak for itself… “Fear” It is said that before entering the seaa river trembles with fear.She looks back at the path she has traveled,from the peaks of the mountains,the long winding road crossing forests and villages.And in front of her,she sees an ocean soContinue reading “The River Cannot Go Back”

“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myselfContinue reading “Nobody Wears Shoes”