Harmonics

Listen to "Harmonics" on Spreaker. We've all heard how kids say the darnedest things. I believe we never grow out of that stage. We just stop documenting it. I love reading FaceBook entries because there are a lot of funny comments being released. Then we make our way down the river like a water bug and totally forget that area of laughter until someone either likes it or the social network sends out an anniversary reminder. Because I'm a daily writer I get to sneak back into those moments of pen meeting paper and come across some pretty serious stuff and all too many times a totally insane comment that still has strings attached to the present. The goal is to learn from what's written. Not to measure growth but to see if the lessons delivered one year or fifteen years ago can help build a stronger structure on this journey toward the final horizon. I came across a sentence penned out on April 14, 2016 that says, "Allow all that has shades of shadow to know you've accepted it. But it can't become the wave of the day. Allow there to be a vividly clear picture painted by the warmth offered by harmony." What is harmony? Being a yes person? Being dedicated to your job and family? Being almost perfect? Harmony means different things to each of us. If you personally don't feel harmonic with the moment how do future collaborations come into play? Talk about pressure! For there to be workplace harmony it doesn't start with the bosses mandate. It begins with the way you wake up in the morning. Crap! More pressure! Harmony grows from the 6th sense. Hold it. There are only five right? The sixth appears by way of trusting the subtle existence of there being a power greater than you and through you it will reach others. But if the mind body and soul are endlessly entangled with feeding the other five senses the 6th will never find a place of importance. Having faith in the 6th opens the channels that require growth. Give yourself permission to participate. Make room for harmony.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 98

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 98" on Spreaker. A simple but healthy thought fell into my process of growth the other day: It's all around you. Why aren't you taking notes? We take in so much mentally on a daily basis who would ever think that sitting down with a writing instrument and documenting it would carry worth with its weight? I'm the type of numb skull that wants to know why birds sing while its raining. Humans do all they can to bust free of the gray sky and bury themselves in a hot new television show or reason to run off to the mall. It's all around you. Why aren't you taking notes? If you think your job sucks what are you doing to add a better feeling to the atmosphere? Our choices rarely match how it is we are are feeling in the moment. If we took note of the actions versus the reaction is there still enough time to change or invite a newer way to walk. My Dad would remind me of how you can't teach an old dog new tricks. The purity of chance is holding onto an engaging chunk of what's next? The rules of the game are right in front of you. I love what Howard Stern says in a station promo, "Those that make it never stopped working hard on their performance." Why aren't you taking notes?

Invisible Valley Floors

Listen to "Invisible Valley Floors" on Spreaker. I'm a people watcher. I find great joy in sitting in very crowded places just watching, listening and writing down what makes me chuckle, worry or grow forward. During these moments I hear a lot of people talking about the dreams they had the night before. Most are bad dreams. In fact I rarely hear someone speak of locating victory during those chapters of REM. I've learned if you speak of only one the other begins to make more noise. You have to be equal with sharing the dreams. Bad dreams have amazing ways of controlling our paths during the hours of being awake. We allow the one time mental images to have a voice in what we do, how we decide and act upon. I talk a lot about dreams because I want to be better with awareness. If what I am aware of puts those pictures in motion... I can make better decisions during the awake hours. I openly admit that I pray as well as meditate before jumping into La La Land. But that doesn't stop bad dreams from happening. I am quite good at waking up from dreams. But if you wake up for one you learn to wake up for all. That generates a sleepless night. Sleep meditation has been a brilliant step in the right direction. Learning how to properly meditate is difficult enough. Now train yourself to meditate so peacefully that you give yourself permission to fall asleep. You go pretty deep. But it opens your pattern to a state of holy crap that dream felt too real. Another pitfall of sleep meditation is the length of the rest. Sometimes it's 20 minutes. Other times its just over and hour. Is it real sleep or heavy heavy prayer where you truly do become respectful of mindfulness? Using the path ignites the new morning. When I step into the studio at 530 am there's never any problem with energy or building new creative ideas. Learning more about how you dream opens your heart to having a better new tomorrow.

Todd Riley

Listen to "Todd Riley Its All In The Pacing" on Spreaker. I've always been drawn to the story of how funny people dedicate their lives to an extremely difficult path of challenges and changes just to be labeled the headliner. Todd Riley has skipped, skated and Skyped his way through the overcrowded to the barely a seat has one butt in the chair. He laughs about that. How many people can shrug it off and lay claim to a great place to practice new material. Which he goes into during our conversation. The places of practice and more.

Painted Thoughts

Listen to "Painted Thoughts" on Spreaker. We are collectors of painted thoughts. One minute on Facebook or Twitter and you'll see what I mean. All of those thoughts endlessly tossed into what will become our forward motion. Have you ever gone back one or two years to re-read your painted thoughts? Who were you in that moment and have you grown? Maybe it's not about growth but rather are you still just as vocal? I truly do look deeply into others people's posts that express how bad of a day or life they're having. I'm not judging. I'm just wondering how a person feels when paging back to that area. Physical pictures have the strength to recreate new ideas and expressions. But blasting a negative action in the present won't be as strong when you return way way down the path. Some say it doesn't matter. But it does. My Facebook re-posts other peoples moments from several months or years ago and those reading your action generates a reaction in our hearts. This isn't a guilt trip but rather a better painted thought of how we react when our hearts are demanding action. Hey I'm horrible about spouting off a blurb that shouldn't have gone public. Only to be embarrassed by it when someone rights what I wrote. You have the freedom to paint your thoughts onto the face of any social network. Be brilliant at it while knowing what you set free six months ago during a moment of rage, worry or doubt can be turned into a tool to bring light to those dark clouds above your next painted thought.

George Harrison

Listen to "Concert For George" on Spreaker. On November 29, 2002, Eric Clapton gathered George Harrison's closest friends to honor him with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Eric, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Billy Preston, Gary Brooker and George's son Dhani all played Harrison's most beloved songs. The show was emotional for all and everyone felt George's presence in the hall that night. ​ For the first time, every song from that night is being released digitally as well as on a 4-lp 180-gram audiophile collection with a special mandala design etched on side 8 and a 12" by 12" booklet. ​ This show features interviews with the artists who played that night as well as George Harrison. It's Concert for George: All Access.

Face To Face

Listen to "Face To Face" on Spreaker. As of late we keep reminding each other of how tough the times are. From the headlines to the uncertainty of quality to the crafty methods of madness that consume our everyday workplace. Then word arrives that Billy Graham's been called home. It sorta hits you. For most in this very noisy generation the face and place creates more of a shrugged shoulder move rather than an oh wow moment. But if you sat down and truly thought about it, you'd see your heart still remembers when you first caught a glimpse of such a committed figure in spiritual and American history. It's not so long forgotten. I penned out in my daily writing this morning "I don't know the man but I know a lot about the man he led millions to." I had a flashback of trying to get through Billy's autobiography. It wasn't a difficult read. I just kept wanting to know more about God then Billy. Over the past twenty four hours I've heard a lot of people mention in their conversations about how much they're going to miss Billy. I'm the odd ball that laid out in words this morning about Billy possibly being disappointed by that missing thing. Especially since his dedication, loyalty and service was to God. If you miss Billy. Then you're missing out on a lot of who and what God is and will be. Billy always said he couldn't wait to get to Heaven. He wanted to be face to face with God. To let him know how grateful he was for leading such a giving life. I never once heard him say "I think I'll miss being on earth." Billy became because God moved through him. How much are you missing by keeping God out?

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 97

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 97" on Spreaker. I've always been fascinated by the view of the creative mind. How living in the future makes a great connection for the collector or buyer to one day catch up. I use a painted rock found on a mountain trail as an example. How much did the artist know before letting the stone go? So often the creative spirit wants to be picky about who gets what's been released from their imagination. It's a protection thing. Nobody wants to be judged. It takes too long to recover. Yet artists have this energy about them that allow them to glide from project to project without worrying about the continuation of the process. Creative people don't always get that part. It's part of the process. When I write my daily pages I show gratefulness to the trees, the soil and the sky. Without their participation I'd only have my hand to put words on. Taking note of all things participating creates a place of peace for the artist. A huge part of that connection is the passerby that feels something in the moment then allows the art to grow with them inside a more private surrounding of acceptance. How do you deal with your thoughts that become art? Remembering that at any given moment those receiving it don't always have your permission to be present.

Working Out The Echoes

Listen to "Caught Up In The Echo" on Spreaker. Radio station program directors always made it a point to ask their talent "Would you listen to yourself?" Not out of conceit but to place the thoughts of the creative on air talent in the very place the listen receives the talk over a song intro. Here in 2018 where broadcasting is a way of all for all people. Would you like reading your entries on social media? Could you be a fan or follower? I totally grasp why we post thoughts. Most are usually about the moment or would never pass company policy so you air your laundry via Twitter or Facebook. Which brings me to the question "What are you putting in the atmosphere that creates the echo?" Will what you are saying today become a huge part of your growing tomorrow? This has nothing to do with building a legacy. I believe we're all given lessons to learn from daily. What are you doing with yours? Are they seeds for a future harvest or is your field unprepared because there's too much change and nobody wants to waste time or energy on yesterdays fad.

Reaching Toward Without Expectation

Listen to "Reaching Toward Without Expectation" on Spreaker. We're all guilty of it. We spend a lot of energy trying to predict the outcome of something that's been tucked in your thought process but today it's showtime. But before it arrives we waddle through a past we change and a future designed to do nothing but endlessly change. Getting through the mess requires a well focused thought process that looks lame to others because it's not about partying or eating incredible food and deserts. Reaching people to get a product in their hands has evolved into a sale where the client truly is smarter then the seller. The digital generation has rocked the business world because every product is available in any corner of the world at any time of the day or night. I didn't think I'd ever become an Amazon customer until the day I needed a new bottle of ink for my fountain pens and Staples and Office Depot could no longer provide. I keep going back to the company that's associated with the selling giant but I've never met a sales rep or store manager. I trust them without talking to them. No wonder when I walk into a store and an employee asks a question I quickly turn because I feel like I'm being attacked. "No help! I'm ok!" How then does local win in a world of two day delivery? It's more than putting a smile at the checkout line or tossing out buy one get one free deals. Businesses need to start reaching toward their customers without expectation. Stop selling and start knowing who your customer is. Know their name. Now their place on your block. Reach toward them.

Tiesto

Listen to "Tiesto Remembers His Early Days" on Spreaker. I don't think there are two DJ stories the same. That first bite on a live stage usually inside some stinky dark hole in the wall. Tiesto always knew he wanted to spin because radio jocks always came across as having the time of their life. Once within the moments that live DJing brings to the forefront of your imagination that's when he was bitten a second time. This go around it was producing his own music. The latest release from Tiesto has him teamed up with Gucci Mane and Sevenn Boom.

Zedd

Listen to "Zedd And Maren Talk The Middle" on Spreaker. You can pump up the volume and pen out the right lyrics but that very rarely instantly becomes the main attraction inside the buds of fans and followers. Zedd took the extra time to layout the ground work to locate Maren Morris. He's a whole lot of dance and she's got some seriously cool rhythms within the four walls of Country. Their first ever song together is The Middle.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 96

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 96" on Spreaker. Perception feels like a word that best represents assumption. Not so... Dictionary.com says "Perception is the ability to see, hear or become aware of something through the senses." Whereas assumption is accepted as true or as something that is certain to happen without there being proof. I don't know if it's funny or a lack of common sense but we invest in both words like it's a hot commodity. Only to face the price of disconnection at the destination. Through awareness we might see what could become but how we interpret the situation is an open door to walk toward assumption. We can rely on experience but with so many distractions in the everyday world where is there enough space to better understand the perception of history? No wonder we keep doing the same thing over and over. The physical path of growth is covered up and or lost in what we perceive. There is no true proper method of delivery. Its almost as if we've stopped questioning the process and expect success. How healthy is that? Research shows right? Not if perception and assumption are caught kissing in the corners of your unwritten chapters.

Transparent With Yourself

Listen to "Transparent With Yourself" on Spreaker. Telling yourself that you suck or you're stupid isn't being transparent with yourself. It's being rude and or abusive. Having that physical connection of openness has to be a place of respect as well as deliverance. Just because your mind body and soul live with you doesn't give you permission to flake out. Too often we put too much attention on the dollar being more valuable then the talent. Goals are set way too high and very rarely do we see a return on the investment. You can't properly function if you're not being transparent with yourself. Yeah I get it. This is the kind of talk that managers and other bosses love to toss around. Managing yourself is just as important. Who's in control of your wisdom? Which department has your faith in order? How are the energy sources in the areas of keeping doubt, fear and shame away from the infrastructure of personal success. Do you even know who you are versus what you think you like? Walmart doesn't sell a new us. Which means we need to find better focus on your talent having the greater value and not the dollar. Break free and find you again.

Dot On A Map

Listen to "Dot On The Map" on Spreaker. The upside of being a daily writer is getting the incredible opportunity to step back a few chapters or decades and see how far the mind body and soul have grown. The downside is having to endure what each were forced to walk through while pushing their journey toward this present place of now. We're all creatures of habit. If something gets twisted we'll usually act it out the same way. But what if the dot on the map becomes a newer set of seeds planted within a different layer of soil? It's perfectly everyday to plant the tiny things and move forward, totally forgetting the physical steps and or attempt. But as a daily writer there's a documented dot on the map. A place not necessarily designed for change but rather an open window that simply gives you peace of mind. A couple of years are pressed into the history books and you return to that page. Not because you're snooping on yourself. It's just happens. That dot on the map says more about you today by way of how far you've grown or have stayed away. Head doctors endlessly try to get their patients to write stuff down. Throw it away then take on the day. With so many distractions it becomes too easy to get sidetracked by other things and demands. The idea of wanting to take shelter or grow gets lost in the center of a crumpled up sheet of thoughts now sitting in a landfill. Try daily writing. Open your path. Teach your inner self that you aren't the one causing the troubles. Learn to work as a team and grow in ways that a tiny dot on a map kept alive in a book with so many darn pages.

Sacred Ground

Listen to "Sacred Ground" on Spreaker. You'll hear me say this a thousand times, "We were all born to be creative." Each of us have the tools to take what's normal today to a much higher level of vision meeting demand. I'm extremely guilty of trying to figure out why we have down time. Those moments when being creative is a horrid process. We all know people that were once extremely talented in the gift shop. Then it happened. Like a light switch all that made them creative went away. It's because someone other than them self took over their sacred ground. There's a weird thing about being human, we think it's completely natural to walk on the very soil of someone else's sacred ground. I'm not talking your yard or favorite place in the forest. That zone your mind body and soul reach for within the within. Meditation has permission to access that area of your energy. People don't. Nor should you allow anyone in. Here's where we get lost. Trust. We trust others to hold the keys to the front door of our sacred space. The first reaction is to get copies of those keys just in case you or they drop them along life's everyday path. And when you least expect, everything held within your sacred area has taken on the image of those you trust and not the individual you are. Understanding where your old self is can easily be located in the drive of those closest to your dreams. Time truly isn't moving too fast. We spend way too much time trying to catch up to a past shaped by sacred ground takeovers. Protect your space and everything growing with it.

Directing Ourselves Away from Direct Deposit

Listen to "Directing Our Way from Direct Deposit" on Spreaker. A friend wrote a very beautiful note to his wife on Facebook this morning. It was very open. Very touching and truly a lesson to be learned. Creative people have this weird way of thinking what we bring forward by way of art is conversation. But that's not truly the way it works. How many times have we heard people talk about their interpretation of the presentation? Without a voice being present we pretty much sit inside a cup of assumption. I wrote to the friend voicing his true love and respect for his wife. I wanted him to know how inspiring it was to for me to read his words. The hardest silence to identify is hidden the heart of those born to create. Just because the painting on the wall or song sounds fresh and vibrant doesn't always mean that's what's being felt. It requires an incredible wife or husband to reach beyond the moment to hear the truer voice. I'm a softy when it comes to a man admitting that he loves his wife and couldn't be where he is today without her. Such openness teaches us to bridge the gaps with love and support and not try and figure things out on our own. Another friend wrote to me this morning. He talked about how he was penning out a few bars of gratefulness and wanted to share it. My response was so totally me because I'm just weird. I said, "It's about staying true to each other. It's about growing together as a team. God never said that we were supposed to do this alone. We are to grow in a field that will one day be his harvest."

The Lyrics from Billy's Forest Chapter 95

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 95" on Spreaker. We face those walls all too many times. I still can't figure out why we don't just turn and walk away. Unless it's because there have been several times in our everyday challenges where the grass has been greener on the other side. But getting back becomes the lifelong challenge that feels like defeat. Now lets turn it around. What if we are deciding not to cross through to the other side of the wall? We've decided that we are comfortable right where we are. But God wants you and needs you to help someone locate victory on the other side. How do you bend or react? Do you set it aside knowing the energy is only going to get louder and stronger? Or do you allow your presence in the now to become part of the process of required growth?

This Instrument Has Something To Say Part Two

Listen to "This Instrument Has Something To Say Part 2" on Spreaker. My third grade teacher always reminded us that how we kept our desk is how we lived our life. I thought that was sorta cool to always be reminded of how we are perceived in other peoples lives. I believe how we treat our writing instruments showcases just as much of our hidden away personality. I watch people toss them, steal them, bite into them and break them in two when anger becomes the chosen path of delivery. I collect writing instruments that date all the way back to the 1920's. I'm so convinced that the original owners soul is still alive on the tip of that nib. How about that? Ghosts living in the bladder of an ancient maker of words. Imagine the ghosts we all carry. If the way we treat our writing instrument is a reflection of who we are then how do we treat other people? We toss them, steal them and bite into their thought process during a disagreement. Being aware of what we trust. And we all trust a writing instrument when its filled with ink. Being aware of how we live out our lives when the inkwell is full is a great daily study. But what becomes of your habits when there's no more ink? Some grab a Red Bull, go shopping, hit FaceBook for hours or take drugs. The cure for this pain killer epidemic in the world isn't here in the present. The first step is to identify the original owner. Then move through the process of continuation. Is a divorce truly final? When terminated in reality aren't you still using the skills picked up while there? A writing instrument. When you borrow it from a persons desk... aren't you in essence taking their mood swings and mindsets with you? Be aware of what you place on your path. Ghosts travel without having to purchase a ticket.

This Instrument Has Something To Say

Listen to "This Instrument Has Something To Say" on Spreaker. One of my passions in life is purchasing extremely old writing instruments. Most of them don't work. The bladder is dried up and most people look at them as being a piece of trash from a past we can't change. I pay to have them refurbished. To give the tip of that nib another opportunity to speak. To give the body that still holds a finger print or thought from the 1920's up a place to keep reaching. We treat the people in our lives the way we do writing instruments. Once gone. Enough said the party is over. And yet I still remember the odd ball junk my Grandparents in Wyoming endlessly put into my heart. Stuff that has the strength to take the curve out of the road and make the mountain look more like a mirage. My father passed away on May 7, 2015. He's more alive in my present then he was when he was present. His wisdom, wit and ways of protecting the path continue to teach my wandering self. What if I challenged you to purchase an old writing instrument? To hold it. To write with it. To put it away for future days of thought. Your heart will open in ways that will reconnect your steps toward those that were here before you. You aren't the first. You never were. You are part of the continuation. If forgetting your past is the deal. I can't imagine what those beyond you will be speaking. Ouch! Same goes for business owners that brag of being family owned and operated for ten billion chapters. But are you still true to the original seed? Not when the doors opened but the multiple years before it.