What a difference a week makes, or a day, even an hour; or I suppose, any demarcation of time longer than right now. 

An acquaintance of mine passed in her sleep without warning last week, while another is preparing for her waltz through the turnstile, standing at the precipice of eternity with ample time to gaze into the rear-view mirror. 

The first was only forty, while the latter has lived long enough that others will opine, “she lived a full life.” 

What about you?  Be it now, or forty more…years, months, weeks, days, or God forbid…hours from now, will you have lived, fully? 

As sad as the events of the last four days have been, they are not without purpose.  In silent reflection, as I was painting this weekend, this simple truth kept resonating in my subconscious with every brush stroke.  ”There are only so many sunrises.”

“So what then,” you ask, “can each of us do to live more fully?”  For starters, tackle your FEARS head-on for they are the architects of rear-view regret. 

Point To Ponder:

“Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.” - Joy Page

Peace be with you,

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” - Tuli Kupferburg

Sometimes you hear a song and think, “haven’t I heard this lick before?”  At Audio Theater Theory of A Deadman’s “Bad Girlfriend” elicited such a feeling, and eventually that nagging notion lead us to this special edit featuring The Cult’s “Fire Woman” blended in.

Listen

“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”                   

                                         – Al Bernstein

Often familiarity leads to stagnation.  Our senses become dulled, our awareness, diminished.  Begrudgingly we start down new paths almost as if being dragged when, I suspect, we are actually led.  Through exploration of “the new” we are intrigued, exhilarated, and enlightened and yet again truth, like peeling bells, reminds us that, that which we feared, we would not choose to go without for we are now more complete having absorbed the lesson.