It’s been awhile since I shared some new music with my readers/followers, and I’ve really been almost obsessed with these guys for a few weeks now. ThePianoGuys are a group of musicians from Utah who re-create popular musical pieces (some classical, some radio songs) and then record them “music video style” in awesome locations. The […]
A few weeks ago I was taking a road trip up to North Carolina for a weekend work retreat. Since I planned to make the entire 11 hour drive all in one day, I left my house pretty early in the morning. As is often the case in my neck of the woods, it was […]
I noticed it first a couple of weeks ago. The very tips of the leaves on some of the trees in our neighborhood were starting to change colors. Now it’s fairly evident, and some leaves are starting to gather on the lawn. The trees are still mostly green, but I know it’s coming and it […]
I was having coffee with a networking connection this morning. In the course of our conversation, we touched on the topic of personal life journeys. Specifically, we talked about how life has a way of never ending up where we think it will. So many of my friends and clients have said, “Wow, I thought […]
A few weeks ago I had coffee with a friend/colleague of mine who I hadn’t seen since late spring. We had planned for me to go to her house so she could share some of her extra landscaping plants with me for my garden. But the day before, she e-mailed to cancel because she’d just […]
I don’t have a specific CD or musician/group to recommend this week because I thought I’d use the time to encourage all you wonderful readers to explore the local music scene in your area. It’s important to expose ourselves to new and different musical experiences, and live music is something we should partake of regularly. […]
Stress is part of our lives. Good stress, bad stress, we just can’t get away from it. Numerous research studies have shown that some amount of stress can be positive. We’ve all had the experience of having a job or school deadline that spurs us to action and motivates us to do better work. Or […]
I forget exactly how I was introduced to the writings of Brother Lawrence. My inclination is that it was either by a spiritual/mystic GIM friend of mine at a training weekend or by complete accident browsing through my church’s library. However, it happened– I’m glad it did. His writings have become influential in my meditation […]
“You can’t stop the waves from coming, but you can learn how to surf.”~Jon Kabat-Zinn Every couple of years my family takes a vacation to the Florida coast and spends a week on the beach. And one of my favorite things to do is to go out in the water just past where the waves […]
This is a quirky little book– but amazing. Written by Joshua Kadison (who also happens to be a musician of moderate fame in the early 1990’s), the book is in the form of a “discovered journal” about the experience of a young man sent to scout an island for a canning company. Once there, the […]
