“ The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” ~ Linus Pauling Let’s talk about ideas. How often do you have a really good one? How many of your ideas do you take action on? How do you decide which ones are worth it? Well, here [...]
“ The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.” ~ Eckhart Tolle Do you ever feel like sometimes you need a little jolt? What kind of nudge from the universe do you get that brings you into the [...]
“ Every person is defined by the communities they belong to.” ~ Orson Scott Card Community is a quirky concept. What makes a community? How do you know when you’re in one? Can communities overlap? The whole idea of community is sort of like a fractal. If you zoom out to the [...]
“ Creativity is intelligence having fun.” ~ Albert Einstein Let’s give three cheers for the power of creativity. Where do you find it? How do you cultivate it? What gifts does it bring to your life? Sometimes you’ll hear people lament that they are terrible dancers or can’t paint, or don’t have a [...]
“ Your belief system saturates the space around you.” ~ Aaron Huey Let’s talk about beliefs today. How do you form them? What’s your process? Do they just appear and suddenly exist somehow? The whole concept of belief is an interesting one when you get right down to it. They’re an interesting sort [...]
“ Only entropy comes easy.” ~ Anton Chekhov Well, Spring is springing no matter how you slice it. What do the longer days inspire in you? I suppose you may live somewhere that’s still covered in snow, but here in the Bay Area it’s nothing but sunshine. The hills are green, plants are [...]
“ Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr Do you ever avoid talking about the elephant in the room? Well, I’m not going to do that today. The fact is, we are one big global family, and some of our kinfolk are [...]
“ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” ~ Mark Twain Do you ever get so busy you [...]
“ Love is space and time measured by the heart.” ~ Marcel Proust What is there to say about love that hasn’t been said? It makes the world go round, it’s a many splendored thing, it’s the force that holds the universe together. There’s love for yourself. There’s love for another person. There’s [...]
“ Where words fail, music speaks...” ~ Hans Christian Andersen Have you ever thought about what your music says about you? What’s the over-arching vibe of each genre you choose? How does music transcend language? Some evolutionists think that our capacity to sing and make music came before we humans learned to talk. [...]
