The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 182

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If team leaders spent more time crafting the skills of the individual we'd have amazingly stronger forces on the workplace front.  But it doesn't work that way.  The goal is to empower the team with playful atmospheres without studying the source of how an individual's playing field processes birth and rebirth.  Isn't that what creativity is?  One project leading to the next, two never being the same? I love walking into a Walmart that isn't labeled a super store!  My natural need to search is going to be fed.  The little guy Walmarts aren't laid out the same.  I read about a grocery store's sliver of success was based on how every location in every town had to be 100% spot on identical because their clients know what they want and where it should be found.  For two weeks I walked into as many of these grocery stores as I could and watched people.  I wanted to see who walked in, got what they wanted then hit the checkout counter.  Didn't see it.  Crafting the skills of the individual requires opposites attracting.  Friction and conflict are part of the glory story.  If everybody on the team is drinking the same Jesus juice where's the authentic growth?  I love sitting down with individuals struggling with how nobody wants to hear their ideas, respects what they bring to the business and how difficult it can be to push their limitations toward hourly goal changes.  They only thing keeping humans from being a computer is team leaders usually forgive the digital device when it crashes.  Opposites attract.  Compassion, a willingness to listen, forgive and build with should be the daily diet.  Look at the group Chicago.  Not just one of the biggest most successful bands of all time but member wise they have a lot of individuals in that band and on that team.  Creative people that bring their individual ideas and energy.  They work so well together that they travel with a mobile recording studio.  Not only are they doing live performances but they're endlessly pumping out the jams.  Recognizing their individuality as a team put them in a place on the charts most never see.  Their new album of original music debuted at number one.  Crafting the skills of the individual starts with leaders that must know every shape and shade of art and live it as an individual before hitting a team building meeting.  Bring yourself first.  Be the individual that helped others design mind blowing success.

Faithful vs Faith Filled

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I'm not a wordsmith nor do I play one on the radio.  I do though love playing with words.  I have a dictionary with me at all times.  While writing,  words will hit me in ways that invite me to study their truer definition while opening the heart to the origin of their purpose and play.  On this podcast I sort of get in an argument with my multiple layers of thought based on there being a huge difference between faithful and faith filled.  One can easily introduce us to being faithless while the other opens the door to staying focused on all things we grow with.  It becomes the power of choice.  If a little short of faith the heart is aware of how it can maintain its reach toward changing it.  Whereas faithful can be so many things including an excuse as to why your personal studies have slowed or disappeared.  Questions are in your everyday and for most of us the one word so many try to bring answers to is faithful.  If you aren't feeling it.  Oh well maybe another day.  I compare the two words with our present place with Hollywood's way of sharing the stories of Freddie Mercury, Elton John, Judy Garland and even Richard Jewell.  The Bio Pic's aren't the real story!  They are based on.  Think about your own journey.  Are you living a life of what really took place or is your Bio Pic being rewritten.  Being faithful vs faith filled.  Knowing the steps and how being filled keeps your focus on the vine baring fruit vs just another day of questions.  Word play.  When your mind doesn't want to listen to how we use words.  So it crafts a different definition in hopes of being stronger in choice.

No Connection While Shooting For Perfection

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This one's gonna be way out there.  Most of them are.  I'm ok with that.  Daily writing.  It's got a story all its own.  What keeps it alive and moving in forward motion is how so much of what's put down on paper has a constant connection to continuation.  How far did that one fly over your heart?  On this podcast I read from October of 2016.  Today's physical date is December 13, 2019.  Inside the paragraphs the writer in 2016 speaks of how he knows that one day he'll read from the writing but the day hasn't been nor will it be handed to him.  I'd love to go back to that guy in 2016 and congratulate him on trusting the source of the path.  Sorry it took over three years to make it possible.  What he wrote about in 2016 was based on events brought forward through the writing of 2015.  See what I mean.  The continuation.  The focus being put on speaking to a future self.  How you act and react today will always have an impact or infection on an unannounced day in the future.  When you get there you might say, "Oh crap.  What can I learn from this experience moving forward through continuation?"  We are a series of events usually covered by an addiction to always wanting to belong to something new and improved.  This is why I try so hard to invite you to write down your thoughts.  Not on social media.  Not in a phone conversation.  Your future self is waiting to hear from you.  When you arrive don't rely on a memory that you're heart has spent the last three years rewriting.  You aren't making connections while shooting for perfection.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 181

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Why does it feel like time flies too quickly and yet the seasons are always on time?  No day passes that each of us don't endure our own personal seasons.  We just like to cover them up, run and hide and or just ignore.  Then one day it all catches up.  Unexpected lows, a disconnection from work, friends and family.  A Debbie Downer outlook on the layout of the future.  During a conversation with a nationally known veterinarian I brought up something that's caught my attention, "Why is it that I'm seeing more pictures of how dogs and cats are being destructive then cute little fuzzy moments of love?"  The doctor laughed and replied, "Yes.  There are a lot of people, more than normal going through this stage in their life and I don't see it changing."  On this podcast we talk about our personal seasons and how each one brings down the leaves or flat out doesn't provide the fruit on your vine of life.  Within it's exposure I bring up the very subject of separation anxiety and how in reality it might be more than just another bill to pay but rather a lesson on how you're being treated and through the animal's bad behavior you can learn to love again.  I've not kept my journey with Jazzie a quiet subject.  Mainly because too many dogs and cats are being returned to shelters that said they won't put any down.  But do you know the real story?  You took them back.  Out of sight out of mind.  A lesson was waiting to be learned.  Don't return.  Find the truer calling.  What stings now will grow into a very peaceful tomorrow.

It All Changed

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This one's a hard one. Yet it resembles a wide open door that screams, "This is what I'm talking about!" I saw the new Clint Eastwood movie Richard Jewell. The one that puts a lot of attention on the Summer Olympic's bombing in Atlanta. July 26 1996. I was in there three days before the event. A radio station promotion. Running around gathering content. It's what radio people do. It's not always about play. It's about taking the experience and putting into words so listeners can be taken to that place. Maybe that's why this movie triggered me. Three days before the bomb went off we were taking in the sights and sounds. How often does the average person go to the Olympics? If you frequent these podcasts then you're already familiar with how I strongly do all I can to convince you to write daily. I know it's a pain. I've been doing it for 25 years! I bet I've had more days complaining about writing then I have enjoying the moment. So what does this have to do with Atlanta? July 1996. Twenty three years ago. I've written for twenty five. All of my journals are held tightly in protective containers. 5:23 this morning I was leaping into those boxes knowing exactly where July 27, 1996 was. I didn't know of the bombing until the next morning. So easily we can talk about our actions and reactions to this tragic event and everything that followed but firmly I say that's not right. Unless you wrote it down all you hold is a story that will be bent and twisted into a shape of how you see it today not as it was happening. I go back to that moment. It's in the daily writing. Not only did the movie trigger me but the writing totally took over in ways that instantly brought forward the way it was. How we heal as a nation from such unending thunder? Do we heal or learn to set it aside. Then when Clint Eastwood releases a movie about it the sudden jolt of reality consumes every space in your mind body and soul. Clint is currently under attack for this movie because critics don't know what his truer message is. They say he's exposing an area of American history where fake news was believed more than fact. In the film Richard's lawyer talks about how the Jewell family had come under attack by the two biggest super powers in the world. The U.S. Government and the media. July 27 1006. It all changed. Putting my hands on the pages written upon on that day 23 years ago showcases nothing more than a daily writer trying to hold onto the moments three days before the bomb at the Summer Olympics. I read those pages too. Share your story or someone will write it for you.

The Power To Say Move On

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Kermit The Frog has always been upfront on how tough it is to be green.  Yet you never catch the Muppet hanging his head in sadness and self doubt.  Neither should you.  It's incredibly tough being ourselves.  All those voices constantly digging up bones from a past you can't change or a future we can't seem to arrange.  The first step of having a great day is the accountability of actuality.  What are you setting out to accomplish?  Does it involve you or are you fixed on making sure all things are done to keep the boss at bay?  So much creativity is lost in our everyday because we don't take the time to listen.  I'm blessed with the opportunity share messages with other creative minds just starting out.  To watch them try to tap into an energy source is entertaining,  They know its there.  That's why they're here!  From the sidelines I take note of the difficulties of reaching goals, ambitions and dreams.  It's not paying off as quickly as they said it would.  95% of us have no idea who we truly are.  We get up, get dressed, drive the car and make our way through a day designed by habits and expectations.  Ask someone who they truly are and most of the time we get shrugged shoulders or excuses as to why something isn't panning out like it should.  We aren't listening to our creative self.  The outside shell has to get the bills paid, buy the latest smartphone and look all pretty because that's where acceptance begins.  Listening to yourself first is how you get to grow forward.  I didn't say act upon.  Listen.  I daily write twice a day. 4:30 am then again in the late afternoon.  Investing in the art of listening clears the mind body and soul.  A single raindrop can't fall onto a mountainside and make it to the ocean if all is says is, "I don't have the time."  Investing in yourself is a requirement.  Not materialistic stuff you can later dump on eBay.  Your thoughts, ideas, the flat out feeling of what it's like to be in a moment of "Now".  I see so many people with creative dreams melt during times of growth.  I hear every excuse to which I've used decades before.  And where does any of it get us?  Learning to listen to yourself empowers you to say, "Move on."  Yeah...  Listening to that gut feeling or new idea.  Give it a voice.  Listen to it.  If it doesn't fit.  Tell it to move on.  This is your kingdom of self.  Protect your investment with solid support and belief.  The power to say move on.

Dad's Cameo

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I've never found faith or received a rush from a dream.  Not my cup of tea to talk about what ran wild while attempting to sleep.  And yet Keith Richards participated with a dream to come up with Satisfaction for the Rollingstones.  Michael Jackson used to keep a tablet and writing instrument beside his bed.  Being a 25 year daily writer I too have played that game but had to end the journey of midnight message making.  Once you wake up the creative monster it's like a child, it doesn't want to go back to bed.  On this podcast we go back three years to October of 2016 where the person I am, he who doesn't talk about dreams, penned out the events of a dream.  My father who had passed in 2015 made a cameo appearance.  He brought a message.  Or so says the writing because in 2019 I don't remember any of this unfolding.  My father said, "From where you stand we see only the light of what is becoming.  Unless your heart has settled on the dull dimness of yesterday's bread crumbs."   Interpretation is the only tool we hold here.  A seed planted in a dream over three years ago inviting fruit to the vine this present time.  What I got from it was a simple message connected to living a life of mindfulness.  From where you stand we see only the light of what is becoming.  Meaning now!  From this place right here.  What you see is only the light of what's becoming.  You see the future every moment your eyes are open.  I'm not saying ten years.  I mean split seconds of time swiftly racing to touch your thinking.  In all things that you see it's the future reaching.  Then your brain processes it creating decisions and or experiences.  The second part of the message from Dad's cameo puts focus on making a choice.  Unless your heart has settled on the dull dimness of yesterday's bread crumbs.  We've gone from seeing the future to living in the past.  A choice.  You can't rewrite your travels.  Marty McFly from Back To The Future sure wanted to.  If Hollywood can't neither can you.  Enjoy your bad days.  They help shape what you're gonna quickly label a good one or a blessed adventure.  Allow your future to become without having to settle on yesterday's bread crumbs.

Locate Your Pace To Create Space

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The title is too heavy for most to carry.  Mainly because most of us don't understand what keeping a pace is all about.  Maybe we do it while working out in a gym or taking a walk with the dog.  There's a chance you might tap into a pace during the holiday because family and friends have a way of allowing you to settle the hell down.  Then on January 2nd you're back in the race.  On this podcast I dive into the subject of how the wind is never caught by a tree but rather the limbs and leaves allow the wind to move through it.  Since childhood I've always loved watching Willows in the wind.  They bend in every direction without ever snapping.  I'm not being negative but our careers, family life, circle of friends and whatever else we're doing have a unique grip of their own on how we're moving through life.  Toss in some religion, spirituality or other forms of belief and now you've got to live up to those images.  How can you live in the "Now" when your heart and head are endlessly fed the events of yesterday, how you were treated as a child or your early days of building a successful career?  How do you handle the everyday stress caused by coworkers, constantly demanding bosses or breath stealing cycles of bad luck with the car, washer and dryer or refrigerator?  The funniest thing about all of this is its the only thing we truly have control of.  Your "Now."   Sure tree limbs fall daily from trees crashing into cars, homes and into a million pieces on the street.  The wind never finds reason to fight with the tree.  Nor does the tree build a wall or mountain to keep it from whipping through it's process of delivering.  Why are you any different than a black panther, cougar, kitten or ball of energy doing nothing but bringing something forward?  In my daily writing today I wondered what it was like to be that kid taking his first step.  How long did I stay on the floor or ground before I got back up?  I was there when my Grandson rode his first bike.  Ten minutes after he took off with a giant smile he returned with huge tears in his eyes, "I crashed."  The words that came from me are still held, "You have to learn how to fall as well."  Being mindfully present means letting all things move through you.  You're hording enough junk in your house.  Keep it away from your successes and struggles in life.  Be in control by putting belief and awareness in your "Now."

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 180

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When it comes to anything creative I'm pretty much a daredevil. I love the thrill of giving birth to new ideas while breaking down what's required to see the entire project through. I've earned the honor of being the author of six published books. You don't wake up one day and suddenly all the pages are sitting in front of you. The book Blizzard White Canvas/Halloween 78 took 32 years to get published. The original layout of the story came through me while in the eleventh grade. I still have those notebook pages and fear everyday that grows forward because it was all written in pencil. On this podcast we openly speak about how everyone of us were born to be a voice. That doesn't mean you're headed to City Council or heading up the OM position at work. We are the voice of what we believe. For many that's extremely difficult because we're not always on the same page as others. In this game of wanting to feel accepted or a part of something that often requires a lot of sacrifice. Giving up on your dreams and ambitions because it doesn't fit in with what others are trying to accomplish. Being on the Broadcast lecture tour I meet plenty of students who've waited over half their life to be sitting in those seats. I do ask them why it took so long. Their answers are brilliant and on fire with new shapes and shades of ambition. They've made the jump. That 4,000 foot cliff with not a bottom to be found. Too many times we give up on what we were truly called for because the monetary payoff doesn't exist. So we change to a different lane only to spend the rest of our lives wondering what if? The truer gain in your success isn't going to be a paycheck. It's actually discovering fruit on your life vine. Always somewhere in the middle. Never at the end. Because a vine has no end. It's always stretching. Therefore its your continuation and it deserves to be celebrated.

What's The Why In Your Re-Invention

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What's in your present day why?  That's a tough jaunt down an invisible trail of experiences.  To come up with a why versus to physically know your why are two completely different answers.  My why in 1975 as to why I was chasing a radio dream is nowhere near where my why is today.  Experience does that.  An ever changing atmosphere for other people shaping your expectations.  Call it what it is.  Your goals today are fed by pleasing those that drop a bunch of numbers into your bank account.  Endlessly we re-invent our aspirations and dreams.  Countless are the pits where we held ourselves accountable but must face what we see as failures in the mirror.  What's in your present place of why?  How do you fit yourself into what's taking place now?  Are you still trying to tie the strings of a pair of shoes worn in 1985?  I've stopped asking why and become focused on bringing the moment to life by understanding the presence of "Now."  Someone asked me about what it's like to have been married to two different people.  Did I still have feelings for the first?  How can I? Those days are nearly three decades gone.  Your job is no different.  Oh my I hear a lot from people still holding onto grudges created during moments that felt out of place before it became 2000.  It has nothing to do with your "Now" unless you're allowing what you can't change to be the decision maker.  Being aware of who you are right now doesn't demand an answer to a hidden away why.  Writing everyday puts the mind body and soul in the center of the journey.  The dog destroyed your house.  Materialistic.  Rather than asking why put your focus on how you can grow from the unexpected silence.  The other day we lost power at the movie theater.  Every computer bit the big one.  Guests were immediately upset because they couldn't get anything from concessions.  A man said to me, "This is my child's first movie experience and you are wrecking it."  Peacefully I invited him into the presence of "Now"  I didn't judge his anger.  I didn't measure his indifference with anyone else in a growing long line.  We gave him free popcorn.  I understood his why but it caused other people's why to become shaded with doubt.  How could a power surge beyond our control totally rip apart their movie experience?  I'm still not interested in the answer.  It happened.  Choosing peace over stress allowed the theater guests to enjoy mind blowing fresh free popcorn.  What's in your why?  Is it the answer you think it is?  Too much energy is wasted on becoming what you assume should happen.  Eat the popcorn and get back to me.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 179

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We've all got that one thing in common,  Asking questions that never come with answers.  Does that give us permission to ask another question except this time around we get to make up the answer?  It's almost like living in our past.  We really aren't.  The physical act of hanging out with memories is our natural way of rewriting the story that best fits where we are today.  I'm blessed with the opportunity to share my broadcast experiences with future leaders just getting started.  Most are so terrified of why they made the choice to step into the school.  They're there.  Their voices shine with quivers.  Their hearts are open to learn.  How can they instantly find success in a world of communication completely pummeled by massive amounts of digit space for anyone wanting or willing to share words.  In the middle of my lessons last night a voice came from out of nowhere, "Where are you taking us?"  Like coming up to a rattlesnake my eyes went directly to the source of energy that made it a point to be heard.  Where are you taking us?  Interestingly enough the answer delivered will change each time we meet over the next 7 weeks.  It's who we are!  When we can't locate the answer to the questions we're asking we give our self permission to ask a different question.  I answered her question.  The moment it came into my place of thinking it actually took the wind from my lungs.  I sat down. I looked at her and every student present, "That's a very fair question.  Where am I taking you.  We're going where you allow yourself to grow.  Each of you are on separate journeys.  None of you will get the same lesson.  Just know that when you start asking the questions that someone who has lived the life can help bring light to what's quickly becoming weight.  Let your artist self have a voice.  It deserves it.  Many of you waited years to be in this moment of becoming a broadcaster.  I can't tell you why the time was extremely lengthened.  Just know that you are here.  Don't ruin it.  Art requires time.  Paint doesn't instantly dry.  That's where we are going."

Numbers

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More times than many I keep bumping into people that are totally freaked out about how fast 2019 has put itself on the map.  Within three blinks of a single eye we're going to be face to face with 2025 with absolutely no way of knowing how any of it gained access to the highway of life without being pulled over by well skilled patrolman and their sporty cars.   I thoroughly believe my reasons for doing all I can to stay from numbers is 100% connected to the face of a digital clock.  We endlessly wake up in the middle of the night and count the number of hours or minutes we have left before life picks us up and throws us onto a layer of unexpectedness.  I sit down to write in my daily journals at 4:30 every morning.  I'm deeply bothered if I show up late.  It messes with my numbers!  I need to be producing in the studio by 5:30 am!  The interviews start at 8:30 and sometimes go until 5:20 pm.  I say that because this Tuesday that's when I'm hooking up with Judas Priest.  I can never say no to the numbers.  On this podcast we enter the war with an open heart only to realize the ticks in clock aren't the only numbers that send our life and style into a total tailspin.  When those freaky little figures begin to consume your every thought and decision you've got to have the strength and discipline to pull yourself away the world and locate the blank spot.  A wall without pictures.  A blank sheet of paper or pull off one of my weirdisms... Put your face 100% up against the bathroom mirror and stare into one eye.  It's fuzzy and totally not in tune with normal but the blank spot has a way of hitting the center of your soul before you get back into the numbers race.

Back Off Jesus Boy

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This one's a tough one to write about.  Because I'm a daily writer that uses his journals as future tools, I'm blessed with the opportunity to stay within my present place of "Now."  Did I lose you?  I spent some time yesterday with Dr. Mark Borg whose new book Don't Be A Dick puts a lot a focus on taking note of where you are while knowing where you came from.  He loves the idea of journal writers going back into their paragraphs and turning it into lessons that keep yourself and others away from having to evolve around the same circle.  On this podcast we go back three years to an area of writing where the spirit of the universe is quite present.  It took me a long time to convince myself to make this the subject of today's episode.  There's no quicker way to shove listeners away than to bring up God and politics.  Then I reached the final page of what was put on paper that morning.  The final paragraph moved right in my present place of "Now."  After reading it I physically heard in my heart, "Do you really think I put those words on the tip of that writing nib for you to hold onto it? That's being selfish."

Pop-Cycle Sticks

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It was very windy the other day.  While walking the dog I mentioned to my wife that I was hearing things usually not associated with these walks.  Feeling sort of awkward I asked, "Do you think this high wind is carrying sounds to us from very far places?"  Here's what I learned:  Sound waves travel faster in the air when it is with the wind. Generally speaking, wind speed is lower near the ground because of the presence of blockages, and so it increases with height (Fig. 1). Therefore, when traveling with the wind, a sound wave farther from the ground travels faster.  On this podcast we play with the wind a little more.  In October of 2016 I felt wind had its own walk and way of changing the way we see light.  Caused in the structure of the moment are places of shade.  I don't know about you but dark spots on the walk cause disconnection from the moment.  It's like walking into a room lit up in the center but the corners are dark.  Uncomfortable!  Now lets evolve the subject into human light making.  We all carry energy.  Some more than others.  A business meeting has been called and everyone is sitting around the huge table.  There's always two or three places of shade.  Minds that don't want to participate or other thought processes that are convinced they don't belong.  The structure of the meeting is no different than a table with three good legs and one that was shaped wrong.  It's moments like this that bosses roll their eyes and truly never confront Charlie the smart phone addicted junkie or Sally the doodler.  In a room that's supposed to be upbeat and moving forward the rays of light aren't equal, which causes streams of awkwardness.  Mainly because we are the generation that's learned how to accept bad service and behavior.  It's just Charlie being Charlie.  Julia Cameron's book The Artist Way At Work opens your thinking process on learning how to deal with the several different layers of creative people around us.  We aren't supposed to be the same.  The doodler is just as important as the overachiever or the know it all.  Embracing each other's weirdness creates the sound solid foundation.  When it does get out of hand I like to use a tick called Pop-cycle sticks.  Charlie and I have had a conversation.  I will no longer mention to him how bad his service is. I'll only say Pop-cycle sticks which will serve as a reminder of him not living up to his side of the agreement.  Remove the shaded areas in your life by learning how to walk peace filled.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 178

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I've always had a difficult relationship with the word "promise."  I didn't grow up that way.  It was actually one of those situations you're forced to play along with or face bad news.  In the mid-1980's I learned the radio station wanted me to stop using the word "promise" on the air.  They said new research shows that listeners aren't in favor of hearing the word.  The moment someone says "promise" it mentally sends a signal to their human hearts and brains and says, "That's all I need in my life is another broken promise."  So I instantly quit saying "promise."  Ever since that day the goal is to make sure that it's removed even from my daily speaking.  I never wanted to give off a reason to cause tune out.  When I hear someone using it in conversation it instantly grabs my attention because it makes me feel like a radio listener.  That's all I need is another broken promise.  So yesterday I'm having a great conversation with a preacher friend.  They always ask "How are you?"  I'm not shy to say, "I feel like I'm walking across a desert floor.  I just hope God doesn't keep me out here for 40 years."  That comment earned me a quick reply, "Where is your Promise Land?"  No!!!!!! There's that word!!!!  Fire starter conversation.  Calmly I wrote, "I don't believe in promises."  Then it came back to me, "Without a Promise Land I can't help you."  Words have always been completely strange to me.  I love how one word can change the way conversations could've gone.  On this podcast we dive into other areas of disconnection.  One being "interruption."  How often do you feel less of a team player and more of an interruption? Working through the storms begins with letting people in on your privatized ways of thinking.  The friend had no idea that I had issues with "promise."  Having the courage in this run run world to take a few seconds and say, "You're going to think I'm a little weird but..."

I Question Myself

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I'm sure it comes across the number of times that it seems I question God.  Not true.  I question myself about God.  It all stretches back to an incredibly long friendship I had based on one solid argument: My value isn't free.  Figure it out.  That's what he endlessly pushed toward me.  When you take the time to put together the necessary pieces the experience becomes part of your value.  This is why in my daily writing and podcasting I'll bring stuff up that might seem like I'm questioning the higher power.  No true.  I'm questioning myself.  If we're put in situations of what feels like defeat instead of running to someone for instant release... Figure it out.  That's why I've been a daily writer for 25 plus years.  I throw my stuff down on paper and begin doing the math.  Learning how to ski in the giant mountains of Montana didn't mean the instructor was going to hold onto my hand down the entire snow covered peaks.  in all honesty  I think their only job is to make sure we get on and off the chairlifts safely.  The rest of the journey is about crashing.  We've become a smarter bunch of people thanks to YouTube.  The car breaks down, the drier isn't drying, the speaker isn't producing sound... YouTube pretty much says "Figure it out."  You watch those videos over and over until the broken becomes fixed.  Priceless.  Your value just went up.  Question not the situation at hand.  Question yourself about the situation.   Take notes!  Play out the circumstances.  Build by way of truly understanding the requirement.  I blame a lot of our need for instant peace on Walmart.  I have two left socks.  OK we'll take it back without a receipt.  Question your questions.  Answer your questions with more questions.  Build your foundation by figuring it out.

Trust The Arrival

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My Dad used to look at his eight children and endlessly ask, "Why can't you be happy with where you are?  Why do you spend so much time and energy on things you have no control of or over?'  As a spoiled kid that wanted everything I had no clue why he kept planting that seed.  It wasn't until I began growing with martial arts and meditation that his determination began to take shape.  Why can't we be happy with where we are?  In October of 2016 I put into the pages of the giving tree two words that best explained to my wandering heart how to begin a path of looking at situations that didn't feel right or weren't going my way.  Trust in the arrival.  You are here.  Where?  Only you can answer that.  It required a lot of elements to make it happen.  Grow into the moment that became the arrival.  A tough way to live because someone's always asking about your five year plan or what are we having for dinner tonight?  At 7:56 am on a Friday my present place in the arrival is to put focus on here not there.  That's why so many people go to work in bad moods or spend the day complaining because the thought of being happy right here is beyond their goals and resolutions.  When I walk with Jazzie the disaster artist dog midway through the day it's a pain to feel how bitterly cold it is already.  Then I grip onto the strings of the arrival.  Being present with everything from the birds, the colors of the leaves on the trees, the shapeless clouds, the hammering in the distance, cars on other roads.  It's Jazz.  None of it belongs together and yet it does.  Where are you at in your arrival?

Step Free Of The Shadow

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Two thoughts fell from my daily writing in October of 2016.  That's over three years ago.  1. All that is now can be nothing tomorrow.  2. Yesterday has already become shaded by doubt and re-existence.  Your memory is already reconstructing it.  Choosing to be mindful in the present isn't a light switch.  It requires personal growth.  Learning how to be present in what is now doesn't scream at you to be perfect with a great haircut, torn tight jeans and you speak a word that is whole and life changing.  All that is now can be nothing tomorrow. It was 21 degrees this morning.  I didn't have to listen to early risers complaining about how much the atmosphere was biting into their waking moments.  You could feel it.  Why let it destroy your day?  I looked at tomorrows weather.  It's gonna warm up!  All that is now is nothing tomorrow.  Being present doesn't mean beat yourself up.  It allows all that "is"  to move through you.  On the other side of that coin will be tomorrow's memories of how cold it is this early in the season.  Yesterday has already become shaded by doubt and re-existence.  Your memory is already reconstructing it.  The conversations you'll share will make it worse then what it really was.  The bad drive that made the car swerve because there was ice on the road.  Not just a little patch but it would've sunk the Titanic big!  The weather isn't the only thing that does this to us.  Relationships with coworkers or friends totally rip your legs from underneath you.  The cost of groceries.  My wife is very guilty of worry.  I ask her peacefully to stop writing a story that doesn't exist.  I grasp the idea of always wanting to be prepared but how many times will the sky fall before the physical event moves into place?  It's very tough to put yourself in the now because we want to judge it.  We want to change it.  We want to be bigger than what we are.  We want. We want.  And if you got what you wanted would you really be happier?

Forced Versus Organic

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Many of us don't like to be forced into making decisions or leading a life and style chosen by others.  Organically we make choices but step free of so many decisions because it leads to so many questions.  I have two examples and neither of them are to be taken as negatives.  I daily write by way of being organic.  I don't set out to create a subject.  Free form thinking and writing is an incredible tool used when I'm invited to interview authors, actors, musicians, politicians and whomever else says yes to a few minutes of talk.  I do believe my forty years in radio didn't happen organically.  I played by the decisions made by others.  It became extremely difficult to sit inside a radio station studio reading liner cards and playing music I'd never listen to in the car or at home trying to relax.  It's just what radio does.  It became my daily choice to participate with what is or isn't radio.  I had fun but I didn't get to be me.  This brings me to the next example.  Religion and or spirituality.  Forced or organic?  On this podcast I read from my daily writing from October of 2016.  The writer knows where his heart is but digs deeper into why it is.  Are his beliefs strong because the church forces the word into being held accountable or has the relationship grown organically?  Each of us face the mirror and wonder what life must be like on the other side.  Do you attempt to step through the great mystery of reflection or stay in the spirit of the moment knowing how much you can handle is already at its highest peak? Breaking through your forced moments versus organic helps you understand your heart.  Living peace filled means facing the questions.  Breaking down the thoughts.  Listening to your wonder and worry.  Being available to look at those that have been forcing you and softly saying, "I'm grateful."  The challenge isn't to create a self made battle.  The idea is to clear your path by making sure the soil isn't poisoned by Miracle Grow.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 177

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We've all walked beside slow moving streams and almost never moving ponds and have been greeted by murky stale water. Now that the picture has been painted how does your murky flow look in your everyday life? I hear it everyday from every shape of profession or just hanging out in the hood, "I don't have time for this or that. I don't want to try new things because I keep failing. Don't ask me for help because that's not what this is all about." We are masters at making sure we don't wade through the murky waters of those around us. Over the past few years the shades of the murkiness have changed due to the climate of the subjects we bring. Brilliant relationships have been swallowed up due to someone's openness about politics, religion or how to cook the better burger. The murky waters of life that seem to be flooding every step you take have led your path into what's called Ghosting. Nobody writes to you. Hardly anybody returns your calls. What did you do wrong? What's in your murky water? Julia Cameron from the Artist Way goes even deeper. How your closet looks is the perfect picture of who you are in real life. How consumed is your refrigerator? The backseat of your car? In an age of constant connection there's a lot of separate journey's materializing with the opposite party denying it. Your murky waters and cluttered closets are endlessly being fed by the actions and reactions of how people are treating you and or kicking you out of the cool kids club. Of coarse I'm gonna talk about meditation and Yoga Nidra. Both are brilliant tools in bringing peace back into your chapters and not weighing you down with invisible guilt, doubt and fear. If life was meant to have friendships lasting longer than a few years then you'd still be hanging out with your elementary buddies. There are some that are. They're lucky! As we inch closer to the holidays it gets tough for the mind body and soul to realize that it's ok to stand in murky water. You don't have to battle the loneliness game by creating fake conversations or searching for love interests on the web. Take in the moment by cleaning out your closet. Don't open your heart. You've got enough in there. Clear it. Get used to the scent of your murky water. Once things begin to clear you'll be amazed at how beautiful your pond is.

I Make No Predictions

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Maybe it's because creative people have larger than life dreams and wishes but during the mid-90's I made a huge choice to stop making predictions and resolutions.  There's no worse feeling then letting yourself down.  You predicted to be a point B by this date.  One year out and you're nowhere close.  Same is true about resolutions.  Look at how many business are making millions of dollars because we made that agreement with ourselves to accomplish this and it never happened.  My entire journey through martial arts was doing all I could to reach Master by September 2012.  I studied hard.  I lived the life.  I held myself accountable.  What I didn't predict was a heart attack in July of 2009.  It ripped me clearly off the path of becoming a Master by that mark on the map.  My radio career had me heading back to the west coast by 1988.  I wanted to come to the Carolina's to learn Adult Contemporary radio then set my sails for Los Angeles.  The closest I  got was being a finalist to replace Casey Kasum on American Top 40.  I make no predictions.  I make no resolutions.  Being present with your current place opens your path for new things to not only be discovered but to help build it.  In 1988 I had no clue that this talk about an internet would lead to radio streaming and that physical conversation would be become a huge attraction to on the go listeners.  I fell into podcasting.  I didn't set out to follow anyone.  I sat there looking at the machine wondering how far I could go if I took my time and learned to build it.  Then I got into the analytic numbers race.  I returned to a life of making predictions and it destroyed me.  Creative peace begins when you disconnect from where you think you should be.  Living in the now clears the imagination to make great the little things.  Build on it.

Interpreting The Paintings On The Wall

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Digest that headline for a moment.  No matter what's placed on yours or anybody else's wall there's always going to be several different interpretations.  Which is the reason why I'd wander through a Wentworth Gallery for huge amounts of time.  To listen to others as they were introduced to modern day art filled expressions.  In all that you do daily the reality of your presence can be easily compared to one of those paintings.  You know how you live but what are you projecting?  How often do you change or fight off those moments of evolution?  In order for there to be progress in anything you set out to accomplish there's always a process that cannot be weighed down by judgement.  Otherwise you aren't growing.  Being a perfectionist isn't a happy spot.  You'll never be satisfied.  I remember writing my first novel.  I never got off page one because it was about getting it right.  This had to lead to that and there needed to be enough conflict to create a cliffhanger of sorts to get you to page two.  Forty years in radio and I still find myself trying to be greater than what I am.  It's OK to keep reaching for a quality driven purpose but to put so much pressure on ambition actually breaks the legs that brought you to the dance.  We judge our personal paintings on the wall far worse then coworkers and family members.  To lighten up might actually come across to them as you being a quitter.  You know what creates a quitter? When a perfectionist refuses to find joy in making mistakes.  I laugh.  I whistle or hum.  Learning to be in control of your present helps you achieve an abstract painting.  Sometimes you've just gotta let your dog eat the grass in the front yard knowing full well they're going to puke and you're gonna have to pick it up.  Oh well...

Who They Think You Are

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The conversation parents need to have with their kids.  The moments when those huge protective arms and wings won't be there to protect the child's dreams and vision.  To have the courage to share with someone assumed close, "Who you think I am.  I am not."  Say that five times.  Who you think I am.  I am not.  We are shaped by what others think we are.  Nobody saw you struggling to wake up this morning.  Nobody saw you quickly try to hide the jelly stain on your shirt.  Nobody sees what you put into your career, the hours, the battles with always hearing no and the constantly leaning on invisible walls that somehow still motivate you to show up on time.  Nobody sees it.  Yet you're judged by what they think you are.  The power of the social media plays into this.  So many people stop to view your thoughts and pictures.  The image of what they think has been developed.  When they treat you as such then you have to live up to it.  Changing your walk because in this moment of now you're inside a circle of acceptance.  Who you think I am.  I am not.  People look at what I do in radio as being that really fun job, "Man you get to see free movies, eat at restaurants free, talk with famous people and you have a really cool dog!"  Where are they at 3:45 am when my eyes pop open to take on the new set of hours demanding attention?  It's no different than a movie theater GM.  Yeah, free movies, popcorn and whatever else might be available.  Sadly it's only half price for the food.  Sadly you have to worry about the self declared blockbusters that actually fizzled out and is still playing in a house of 272 seats.  Maybe three people might come in.  What about the employees that chose to stay home putting more stress on a very limited staff?  What you think I am.  I am not.  Have the conversation.  Be open with the experience.  Does anyone ever say thank you to the police officer standing in the bitter cold directing cars as they come out of a huge mega church?  Offer more than a wave and smile.  I was at the public library yesterday.  It looked like the employees were sitting around goofing.  What I didn't see was the enormous amount of books that were probably put back on the shelves and this was a tiny break from the action.  Who you think I am.  I am not.

Through You

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Was listening to an interview with famed comedian Artie Lang.  Dude's been on a journey.  Sometimes so dark that life itself wanted to run from him.  But through whatever energy was left in his drug torn chapters he's reappeared in society as a brilliant new step.  Say what you will.  Point whatever finger you need to.  Weigh out the odds of what normally happens during times like this.  I mean history has this way of biting each of us,  We all have storms.  Some much larger than others.  Some days those jagged little lightning bolts hit the things around us.  We change or vow to.  We build to rip apart.  We find new friends and careers.  Then one day you take a look back at the walk and no matter how hard you try you can't remember how it was you survived.  You must have!  You're presently in your now. I write everyday not to right anything.  It's not to live in the past.  I write to keep record of everything we agreed to,  what I'm accountable for.  During those days of doubt what spun you around?  Most can't answer that.  They just knew the sun suddenly became visible during a gentle walk through a very raining page.  I've never understood why walkers and talkers, wanderers and discoverers never pick up a writing instrument.  To keep records.  To make actual measurements of personal growth.  To not guilt trip your present self but to remind that mind body and soul you carry that you've got the experience to clear the debris and not throw it onto your back.  Yeah I know.  You don't write because of a fear of others locating your paragraphs and sentences.  And if they did?  Are those who would read already asking questions?  Point to the book.  Whatever you need to know.  It's in the daily writing.  It totally takes the pressure off your path.  It's on the pages.  You were brought to this moment of now to be a leader.  That requires learning, going through methods of question and broken hearted Country love songs.  How did you get here?  This day.  Right now.  Will your answer be that of assumption?

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 176

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If you've been to church in the past three to five years the running theme of so many leading is that God is testing your faith and trust.  Your bad moment or season is because God is trying to strengthen your heart and way of thinking.  This isn't to bring up bad points or reasons to argue but on this side of the pulpit the receiver is getting the word that we should be grateful for all things ugly and wrong in our walk.  Where's the relationship in that?  I'm getting pummeled by a leader because it's part of the daily test?  Could that be the reason why church going is dropping?  The message being sent isn't as positive as the old way of God is punish you for breaking a rule.  In today's space you can lead a clean healthy life and style and expect the great creator to hit you in the heart.  That doesn't seem fair.  We get motivated to grow on Sundays but by Monday when the preachers not around you're left alone with the big book or talking to other travelers.  Which means your heart is now listening to a three party conversation like the old days of the telephone.  Interpreting the word is a very crowded garden.  On this podcast I do ask the questions and try to leave nothing out.  Learning how to deal with the everyday that is going to be slammed with thunder because the higher energy is testing your faith.  I've learned to let it move through me.  I trip, flip, stumble and fumble and then say, "Teach me."  Sometimes we're trying to outpace the calendar.  Time is moving so quickly that our moments of emotions out of control are because we've been trying to lead a life with an open heart.  Close it.  You'd never have a computer without virus protection.  Learn to live with a clear heart.  Defrag that system.  Clearing your path does amazing things to your drive, ambition and success.  Stop being open.  Clear the path.  The next time your body comes under attack by bad news, a boss that doesn't care, family and friends that steal...  Take a seat.  Then peacefully say, "Teach me."  If God's truly pushing out the pain to get your attention.  Sit your butt down and say, "Teach me."

Facing The Mask

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Multiple times during this four decade old journey through broadcasting I've been talked to about having a fake laugh. It doesn't come across as authentic. Listeners are smart enough to know the difference between a golf clap and full applause. Through out the chapters I learned how and why the laughing takes place and how to take better control. The fake laugh is no different than telling someone, "You rock! You da man!" There's nothing better to say and or react to. The fake laugh usually comes into play when a person either feels uncomfortable in the moment due to a bad joke or behavior or they lost track of the subject in the conversation and belching up a fake laugh gives off the view of you still playing along. Radio truly taught me how to fake laugh because when you're doing a morning show or you're teamed up during a different day part, there's got to be energy and laughter is part of that process of building. For me to understand the presence of a fake laugh I had to learn to take off the mask. To stop seeing myself a disc jockey or radio talent and start allowing myself to be more real as plain ole boring me. Removing the mask from your presentation puts you in the conversation and not the always up beat always on the move really far out cool person that seems to always be in the moment of expressions. I'm not saying faking your laugh is wrong. I'm not asking anyone to change it. Being aware of it can either make you look like a leader or come across as a follower. The person you're sharing a conversation with knows exactly where to change their inflection because they know its coming... That laugh. Does it make you a buzz kill to remove the fake laugh? Actually I think it will make you a better listener. You're getting the opportunity to hear the entire conversation. If you need to get out of it. Say so! Well gotta go! Fake laughs appear in more exchanges that should've ended a long long time before you realized how much your fake laugh sounds out of tune.

Take It To God

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I'm interviewed a lot. Maybe it's because I'm not afraid to talk. It could be because I believe sharing your story will always help others achieve their personal days of victory. In October of 2016 I faced an interviewer that put their focus on how I go back eighteen years and create podcasts from the daily writing. I didn't want to come across as I was defending myself. I do believe that each of us are students in the present. Some people take notes while others walk through life living in the moment. There's nothing wrong with that. I happen to document a lot of stuff and keep it protected for future use. The interviewer wanted to know what I might have been thinking about in 1998 that would have some sort of impact on someone in 2016. First... For me to know off the top of my head what I was thinking about in 1998 is insanity. Second... It's 2019! Pushing the clock back to this interview to remember this conversation took place is a date with disaster. I write so that one day we can all right. Do you know what I mean? We've got a lot of wrong turns on this journey. A huge pile of wrongs. I'm inspired by writers and leaders that sift through their personal experiences to help someone locate what's right. Being open with creativity is a very dark place for people. Most comics, songwriters, authors and actors don't like to reenter that storm. Creative success has this identity of always being connected to troubled times. I happen to go back into my trash and pull from it to help others growing like weeds within the realms of modern broadcasting. I step back to listen to what the writer was trying to say and then see how the path actually grew. There are days I don't want to air my dumps and stumbles. That's when I will walk into the bathroom and stare at myself in the mirror and say, "You made a promise to a higher power in 2012 to be real and transparent. It might be a tough subject for you to deal with right now but the message always has the ability to reach someone that needs to know a better way." What do you do on a daily basis that has the strength to reach people long after you've forgotten it? Document it sometime. The map becomes much clearer.

Tapping Into The Invisible

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There's an amazing amount of energy endlessly moving around us. We make the choice to label it bothersome or just noise. It's that energy and or message from afar that's arrived to be used as a tool. If you don't use it the next step is for the energy to keep moving through flow. As a Third Dan in Martial Arts we studied Ki energy. It's very real. Learning how to find it and utilize it's presence teaches us to stop trying so hard and use the fuel the universe has sent. Crazy talk right? Ki energy was the tool required for me to break four bricks from a push up position. Building that energy. Trusting its presence. Then letting it explode. Within seconds the bricks of four were now in eight pieces. I'm a firm believer that Ki energy arrives during moments of meditation and or Yoga Nidra. Building a relationship with it has been a journey of respect. It's not going to be there if you don't take care of it. If you abuse it expect it to bite back. Writing and studying the energy by way of awareness is a great place for leaders to grow with it. You can't just suddenly show up and expect greater things. It's learning how to identify how the universe is unstoppable on its path through you. If things aren't going your way. There's a big chance that you're the one blocking the right energy from taking shape on your paths of choice.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 175

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I love writing inside a forest.  It could be connected to my early years in Montana.  I openly admit to being a tree hugger.  It could also be associated with my Native American spiritual beliefs that say trees and rocks are the greatest storytellers on the planet.  On this podcast I step back to August 1, 2019 and read about so many beautiful things that have happened inside this forest located in south Charlotte, North Carolina.  Once free from the page I looked up and took note of the very forest written about as it appears in my present place of "Now"  Very dark clouds, hard rain, an early morning Fall fog.  But I don't feel the urge to race out into the trees with my writing instrument and paper.  I'm not the only one that does this.  Rather than embrace the rains caused by personal storms we walk away.  Sure I could say I don't want to get wet.  It looks to be a cold day in Carolina.  Why would I want to take a chance on getting sick?  Because it seems like the only thing we talk about or post on social media any more are the great days.  The best smiles.  The moments we've accepted.  Nobody wants to be a Debbie Downer with their changes and challenges and yet on the opposite end of this day could be something we were designed to learn today.  When it happens we'll post it in seconds.  But it's not the full story.  Readers and people standing next to you only got part of it.  My father served our nation in World War II.  In our forty five plus years together he spoke of two things about his days on the battle grounds.  The day he went in and the day he got out.  I never once heard my father talk about the entire story.  Which makes me wonder about how much of our true selves have fallen into the carved out channels and tunnels to never be heard because even though it might not be pretty and smell like roses...  It's just something we've set aside with hopes of forever forgetting.

The Final Page

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We've all been in those meetings where those making decisions put time stamps on unmet expectations.  I'm shocked that society hasn't labeled us the Google generation or The Amazon Prime community.  Both super feed our need of wanting things now.  This makes us want all things delivered the same way.  The idea of being part of a process is time not spent well.  Too much energy and thought went into creating what we believed had the potential of being a success.  But that's not how the real world works.  That time stamp means goals will be met and if there isn't success those in charge of the process are tossed.  Getting back to a life of respecting time is a tough cookie to bite into.  It's not just bosses and coworkers putting you through unheard of amounts of stress, so are your friends and family.  We want answers and end results right now.  The idea of developing a process is out of touch with the times.  I write daily to document the process.  I need that road map to speak to the inner core of this creative journey.  To show it respect as well as gratefulness.  As much as the outside shell demands success the inner voice has to remain in control and trust filled by way of taking a firm grip on the purpose of there being a process.  There are so many choices in today's everyday world that the average traveler has no idea that you have a product.  Not unless you've emptied your pockets and every last cent has been spent on marketing.  Even that isn't enough.  When we shoot for the horizon without a process mistakes will be made.  How many around you accept that?  I've heard it a million times, "We got into the mess and we can get out."  Pretty soon those messes become your image.  Why invest in that?  Getting back to the process.  Painfully it can happen.  The end result may not even be what you envisioned.  Through the process you learned by way of experience which makes creating the light bulb a little easier.  Trust your failures.  Learn from the stumbles.  Unmask your fear filled self and take one more step into the process of success.

Reshaping The Shapeless

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I'm a free form thinker.  I free form writing.  I free form the steps required to endlessly be present in the "Now".  Pretty weird thought right?  It's the kind of thinking that's pushed me away from people.  Learning to live with it has been a journey.  You can't reach up and turn it off.  Being a free form personality is an adventure that has to remain true to the process of daily growth by way of finding adventure in change.  On this podcast I go back three years and locate a note that I penned out to myself.  It was if the inner core of this free form traveler was having to explain to a future self that no matter how reckless a creative mind feels, the reality of being accountable for being a free form thinker is still a vibrant place to plant seeds.  My sister is an out of control Debbie Downer.  I act and react to her methods of conversation by saying things that kind of block the madness from reaching that place we have that tends to bleed when touched wrong.  So I say weird junk in response.  To invite humor or a new path to sink into a thought.  Negative people are always on a mission.  It's an hourly goal to draft weak hearts.  It's almost like they're getting paid by an invisible source of cash and flow.  Free forming the conversation keeps you at a safe distance.  In Tae Kwon Do we spent a lot of time physically and mentally measuring where our comfort zones are.  You can't win a tournament if you're always on the inside.  It's a game of strategy.  So are your relationships with friends and family.  Compassion, forgiveness and trust aren't supposed to hit dangerous levels of emptiness.  Put some free form to work and make sure that line in the sand keeps downers at bay.  People are taking from you everyday.  Here's why.  You let them.  Grow forward and outward.  Build your team wisely.

Sally Kirkland

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Sally Kirkland, BEST Actress Oscar Nominee, Golden Globe winner, Independent Spirit Award winner, LA Film Critics Circle Award winner and veteran of over 200 films. Feisty, hard-working, famously liberal, with the trademark blonde hair, actress Sally Kirkland has certainly made an indelible mark on Hollywood history. Born in New York City, her mother was the fashion editor at Vogue and LIFE magazine. Sally began her career on the off-Broadway circuit and trained under Lee Strasberg. Sally Kirkland is a film, TV, and theater veteran since the 1960's and is probably best known for the film "Anna," for which she garnered the Best Actress Oscar nomination and won the Best Actress Golden Globe, the Independent Spirit Award, and the LA Film Critic's Circle Award. Sally's first director in 1964 was Andy Warhol in "13 Most Beautiful Women." In 1968 she became the first nude actress in American history, "Sweet Eros" by Terrence McNally. Her 220 films also include: "The Sting," "The Way We Were," "Coming Apart," "Cold Feet," "Best of the Best," "Revenge," "JFK," "ED TV," "Bruce Almighty", "Coffee Date" and "Archaeology of a Woman". In the past couple of years she has starred in "Buddy Solitaire", "Gnaw" and "The Most Hated Woman in America" co-starring with Melissa Leo and Peter Fonda. And coming out soon, she has starred in "Sarah Q", "Cuck", "Invincible" and "The Talking Tree". She was nominated for Best Actress in a TV movie by the Hollywood Foreign Press for "The Haunted- A True Story."

Her television credits include: guest starring on "Criminal Minds," recurring on "Head Case" and "the Simple Life." She guest starred on "Resurrection Blvd," and in the TV movie, "Another Woman's Husband." Sally had a recurring role on "Felicity". She starred on the NBC movie, "Brave New World." She starred in the TV movie, "Song of Songs" and was a series regular on the TV show "Valley of the Dolls." She also starred in the TV movie, "The Woman Who Loved Elvis." She had a recurring role as Barbara Healy in the original "Roseanne" series. She starred in the TV movie, "Heatwave" and recurred as Tracy on "Days of Our Lives." Sally is also an exhibited painter, poet, renowned acting coach and ordained minister in the Church of The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA).

Treat Williams

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Treat Williams has been a renowned actor on Broadway, in films, and on television for more than 30 years. Along the way he has been seen in such greats as Hair, A Streetcar Named Desire, Mulholland Falls, Deep End of the Ocean, and Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending. It was the WB television series Everwood, however, that brought him to the attention of audiences everywhere. He has received much critical acclaim and several award nominations for his portrayal of the endearing Dr. Andy Brown, a surgeon who moved his family from New York City to a small town in Colorado after his wife died.

Williams was named after his ancestor Robert Treat Payne (1731-1814), one of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Williams was born on December 1, 1951, in Rowayton, Connecticut. He grew up there attending prep-school before he went on to Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania. While there he joined the Fulton Repertory Theatre Troupe in Lancaster. He thoroughly explored his love of acting while part of the Troupe and so after graduation he moved to New York City to try acting as a full-time career. Soon after his move, in 1973, he made his Broadway debut in the musical Grease. He started out as an understudy to John Travolta but later ended up taking over the role of Danny Zuko himself. His plan to enter the New York acting scene began with great success. He was later seen in productions of Over Here, a play that featured the Andrews Sisters, The Pirates of Penzance, and Oleanna.

Williams decided to try his hand at film acting and soon after made his film debut in the farcical movie The Ritz in 1976. He played a private detective who was tracking a mobster through ridiculous situations. It was in 1979's Hair, however, that Williams caught the public's eye. He was nominated for a Golden Globe award for New Star of the Year for his portrayal of the character Berger, the leader of a group of hippies. Around the same time, Williams, who has always been interested in singing as well as acting, formed a rock band with Kevin Kline, Rex Smith, Peter Riegert, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio called Crime & Punishment.

Practicing Badly Doesn't Make It Right

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One of my thrills as a daily writer is putting things on paper in an extremely difficult to understand hidden speak way.  Basically meaning nobody's gonna figure out the structure of the thoughts and why they were brought to the page.  Today we go back three years to an obviously out of control moment of hidden speak where the writer himself is confused until he reads the sentence over and over.  We're all very guilty of doing things over and over again.  I think the parental figures put us on that path because how many times were you told to keep going back until you got it right.  We do that a lot in this everyday world.  When in question we've made it extremely easy to go back to go.  And do so until our perfectionist self is satisfied or completely tired of spinning his or her wheels.  Growing through the ranks of martial arts to third degree black belt status we were constantly reminded of learning how to get control of what's right and stop focusing on what's wrong. You cannot truly achieve if everything you're doing is a repeat.  Growing beyond this personal challenge takes years of awareness.  The physical understanding and forgiveness of accepting mistakes then moving beyond them.  Like anything else its extremely easy to fall off the wagon.  Get back up.  Get on the trail and find peace and not pieces.  Be aware of where you are in the present and know how you're going to get into the shape of a new tomorrow.  If the moment feels like last week.  You're practicing badly.  With time you'll begin to recognize the habits and bend things toward being right.  Take notes.  Writing each day is an incredible time saver not taker.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 174

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Oh you know how we are. Those people that live by the power of a written word. I've always been connected to the book. I just didn't make it as public as I do today. It became my calling to stop hiding. My preacher friends or those extremely close to the message warned me of the changes and how those around us will have opinion. On this podcast I step through that learning hoop by opening a conversation based not on religion but rather spirituality. I love Jim Carey's quote, "I'm a Jesus freak. I'm Buddhist. I'm Hindu. I'm everything!" The quote I laid into the veins of a living tree this past summer paints the image of my journey as being a spiritual man that doesn't where religion on his sleeve. Try that line out with the Sunday teachers. You know whats funny? The thought is supported. I expected friction. I was letting down the calling. Nope not really. Turning your gifts of life into a conversation that can help free someone from depression is your community. You don't know it all but you do know something. The joy you feel in your walk and way through creating things is actually a brilliant word to be heard. Don't hide your love for what you do. Being a cat lover helps heal others. Running at five in the morning will bring peace to those that would like to do it better. Your language on the street is yours to keep. Grow forward and outward. Remove the labels from your sleeves.

Nobody's Listening

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We're all guilty of seeing those on top or bottom and coming up with our own story lines.  The other day while talking with a Preacher she said something that caught me off guard.  She said "Well I have to be in church tomorrow.  I don't know why.  Nobody comes to listen."  Many times we forget how human Preachers, Rock Stars, Actors and Comedians really are.  Just because they look to be at the top of their game we forget about their personal feelings and experiences.  The world of social media has made us available to always talk but how often do we arrive to listen?  To activate?  To change?  To accept the challenges without defeating yourself or others?  The term Ghosting is very real and is extremely damaging on relationships.  We've become a community of people that don't announce a departure we just walk off the stage.  On this podcast we talk about how we assume if you aren't talking about what might be weighing you down then life must be great, incredible and successful.  Mom used to tell us to never let someone close to your heart.  It's going to be injured even more.  Then one day people learn you aren't so perfect.  Some embrace it while others move forward in search of another energy.