Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Ferrell, Dave Matthews, The Jonas Brothers, Beyoncé, you get the idea… All popular musicians, very successful with their music. Then listening to an NPR interview, “Classical California”, and hearing the inspiration and activities of one Jonathon Heyward, a contemporary American classical composer and director… He mentioned that Mozart’s music …
Just Enough Beans
Just enough beans - coffee beans, that is - to see me to the end of the week, just maybe, If I play my cards right, If I sip my coffee right, If I mix my Cold and my Hot just right, Lesson learned, make the turn, a little more goes a long way of …
SLO-MO
Slow motion, such a notion, would that it will be this way each time, Each time the pressure mounts and demands pile on, On we must go, all the same, Slow motion experience, one thing after the other, do, Do your best, each step, Clarity, Focus, Breath, Repeat, Repeat, Slow Motion, Slo-Mo, GOOD.
Fitful, But Ready
Long holiday weekend, grateful. Rest, sleep seem fleeting, fitful, Believe we can find the path forward, hopeful, Resolved, resilient, ready.
Channeling Sharansky
Natán Sharansky is an Israeli politician, activist, and author. He is also an bona fide inspiration. Born into a Jewish family in the then Soviet Ukraine, in the city of Donetsk, he was a child chess prodigy, studied at a math & physics secondary school, and graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology; …
Donner’s Advice
Such an interesting and insightful bit. Donner's Advice Dutch [chess] grandmaster Jan Hein Donner offered the following advice to a player taking a board at a simultaneous exhibition: If you are to stand a chance of scoring a half or a full point, there are a few things to bear in mind: Be sure to take special …
Theoretical to Real – An Honorable Exit
When I was in college I took a philosophy class that among other topics, considered the ethics of euthanasia. It was theoretical 35 years ago; it’s quite a bit more real now. Elders all around aging, their loved ones, facing those choices, In the end I come back again and again to, Honor their wishes …
Default: Gratitude
There’s this retired Navy SEAL, turned leadership consultant, turned author turned amazing human being… Wait… He was always an amazing human… Part of the mindset that he proposes is “default: aggressive” … and while I get it, sort of, I’m not down with that. For me, it’s default: gratitude. Gratitude is part of the fabric …
Choices
There’s this song by E-40, a semi-famous rapper from the San Francisco Bay Area, It’s called “Choices”… It’s a whole list of two part choices, things we might choose in life; if you like rap music it’s a good one. And even if you don’t like Rut sorta music, we all have choices. The main …
Blog Like A Tweet: 6 Chocolate Chip Cookies
6 Chocolate Chip Cookies, fueled six hours of my day, chocolate chip cookies, the only way. #goodstuff #goodeats
1/2_Full, All GOOD 