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“If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.” -Robert Greene Vvivre Sans Temps Mort (Live Without Wasted Time) -1960’s French political protest sloganContinue reading “Alive Time Vs. Dead Time”

“To put it another way: having gone about as high up Hemingway Mountain as I could go, having realized that even at my best I could only ever hope to be an acolyte up there, resolving never again to commit the sin of being imitative, I stumbled back down into the valley and came uponContinue reading “Compression”

Do you want your art to be picked? Or produced? I know, I know, you’d like both. Who doesn’t? Institutional validation is a powerful thing. And let’s face it, it’s far easier (and cheaper) if someone else does the heavy lifting of producing. The first question to ask…How important to you is this particular pieceContinue reading “Picked Or Produced?”

“The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.” -Brother David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer “Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off whenContinue reading “Take Notice”

“The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.” –Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu (Tranlsation by Stephen Mitchell) “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do allContinue reading ““I Wish It Need Not Have Happened””

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer hasContinue reading “When You Arise”

“Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige’s wall there was this one: ‘Matters of great concern should be treated lightly.’ Master Ittei commented, ‘Matters of small concern should be treated seriously.” -Excerpt from Hakagure, The Book Of The Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Translated by William Scott Wilson “For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.ForContinue reading “For Want Of A Nail”

“Life is easier when you know what you want—but most people don’t take the time to figure out what they want. It’s not that we are completely lost, but our efforts are often slightly misdirected. People will work for years and ultimately achieve a lifestyle that isn’t quite what they were hoping for—often, simply, becauseContinue reading “Habitual Outcome”

We’re all aware of the importance of teaching STEM in schools. I’d like to buy a vowel and add the letter “A.” Promote a new acronym…STEAM. Science Technology Engineering Arts Math. We’re not gonna solve the interesting problems of today and tomorrow without the Arts and Arts Education. They teach empathy for the human conditionContinue reading “STEAM”

“When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists…The Master doesn’t talk, he acts. When his work is done, the people say ‘Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!” –Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu (Stephen Mitchell Translation) “For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do.Continue reading ““We did it ourselves!””