The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 163

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I'm no expert but because we are presently living in the core of what's become the digital generation I still want to see the research as what it's doing to us as everyday walkers and talkers. I utilize the strength of digital. My life as a broadcaster wouldn't be where it was if we were still using tape and razor blades to splice and dice creativity. Where I begin to disconnect from the digital age is when I can be standing face to face with someone and literally feel distant. We've lost that connection. The atmosphere of being present. I'm the old guy here that won't do face to face time on a smart phone. It changes the colors of your eyes. The background is plastic and the idea of listening to a high tinned out voice because all things natural in our vocal exchange are being shoved through a tiny speaker or earpiece. You might hear the emotions shared but the digital connection thins the relationship. While lecturing the other night I stopped and thanked the students for using a pen or pencil while taking notes. Everyone of them were writing with their hands and not thumbs. My sister hates it that I won't respond to her text messages. Because of microphones she isn't typing she is speaking and the digital device is stamping those words onto that screen. Therefore the talker has no idea how much is being said and it's something I've not read. Taking the easy way out to communicate is like walking on a hot paved road with a wood sliver in your foot. This isn't bragging but when it comes to why my wife and I recently celebrated 26 years of marriage has everything to do with a ton of face to face conversations. I don't like calling her up while driving. We make it a point to talk while sharing the same atmosphere. Its a hardcore discipline that keeps the heart clear of the digital clutter.

An Ink Stain That Says I Was Here

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I talk often about the strengths of being a daily writer. Not live in a past you can't change but to learn from so much change. Today it occurred to me that something was missing. The words are there. I can feel how hard the writer was pushing thoughts into the paper. Some days are brilliant displays of whoa I didn't know while others are weighed down by a heavy presence of God or the universe. Those are the ones I truly pay close attention to. Not to get all preachy on you but when do we talk most about the higher power? When we need him or her. On this particular day in September of 2016 the daily writer went all out religion as if to explain to himself by way of reminding. I had to go back and find out what day of the week the material was scratched out. If it was a Monday I'd get it because it's just particles left over from Sunday's church service. Nope! This was a Wednesday. The infamous mid-week crash. On this podcast we go into areas that bring forward everyday questions that sit inside of us until they become silent. We reach beyond what is and isn't and how assumption remains to be the disease that injures more people daily than busy freeways and hidden away drugs and other things of escape. If we could hear the voice of how we were thinking several chapters down the road, would we be better listeners knowing how we grew from the challenges and change?

Replanting The Process Not The Victory

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No doubt about it.  I'm a people watcher.  Not just in parks, businesses and while camping with neighbors I've never met and will probably never see again.  I people watch because there's no greater place to research and or learn lessons.  Native America Spirituality teaches us that what we do today effects the next seven generations.  What are you doing right now that will impact people you'll never meet?  More importantly what you are doing today was shaped by someone you've never heard of.  Most of us only go back to our grandparents.  On this podcast we get out our working gloves and put focus on the continuation.  You aren't the original of anything.  You are a part of the process.  There's more fulfillment in the process then the victory.  I studied real hard to wear my first black belt.  The students I trained with were supposed to be like a Hollywood movie where we always kept in touch due 100% to an amazing amount of sweat and blood lost.  Well that never happened.  That's why the journey toward a second degree black belt was very lonely.  I couldn't find it in my heart to invest energy in a family that wouldn't be there in the days after the labeled victory.  Once I went through that process I replanted the very seeds that brought the harvest.  What?  Instead of doing forms and breaking bricks to wear a third degree belt my choice was to take the route of The Way.  The walk.  The beginning middle and continuation.  The majority of all martial arts schools don't teach the spiritual side.  That meant for the rest of my life I was solo.  The mind body and soul were to document the process then replant it.  To keep free of a labeled victory and put energy in the process of always growing.  What have you done with your victories?  Do you allow yourself to reinvest in how you've gotten to where you presently stand?  Imagine what's going to happen to the seventh generation when your loyalty and determination, integrity and purpose reach out to their paths.  Replanting the process works.  Activate it.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 162

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Please let me be open and extremely honest before we leap into this podcast. I can only speak of this story by way of close association. I'm not presently a caretaker but I've spent most of my adult life watching my brother Teddy being taken care of and now I have two sisters accepting their roles in life on two different journey's with my mother with Dementia and my other brother with Parkinson's. This podcast begins with the story of how I took note of a tree leaning on another. Nature could've easily allowed the tree to fall to the forest floor but the other tree spent its entire growing life stretching its limbs outward to one day catch the now leaning tree. Instantly I was reminded of how my sister knew of her present calling years ago. She prepared for this moment not only with my Father but now with my Mother. In the story I ask "What if my sisters and other caretakers hadn't accepted the calling? What if the doctors that repaired my heart ten years ago chose to take a different direction while driving to work? What if the choice to being a caretaker is actually a choice?" Sure I feel guilty that I'm not 2,000 miles back home in Montana. Only to realize the caretakers need support makers. Being on call 24/7 to never be in judgement but mentally helpful and spiritually connected. Watching my sister and listening to her stories isn't what anybody outside of care taking expects. It's thankless! Yet the vision to provide comfort and security is compassionately unconditional. My sister lives in a world where few stop to visit. Therefore her only connection to the outside world is the internet or a phone call and it's not always the happiest of conversations. The support makers know this and must remain just as strong during life's decision to bring change. Caretakers are valuable to our everyday. When they don't feel blessed and or the sounds they pick up are only silence, where does their support begin to arrive? For most there's no Calvary. Just another day when you wonder why God put you in this place.

Going Back To Find Out Where Your Heart Is

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The title could easily be taken as word play.  How do you go back to a place to find out what is? The normal steps would be to find out what once was.  Being a daily writer for 25 years provides not an open door for all things to flow through me like a flooded backyard stream but rather the opportunity to clear the path of the everyday debris itching to infect your decisions and reasons for reaching forward.  Going back to find out where your heart is.  Where are you in this moment?  How is your heart reacting to the world today compared to how you were chasing everything but true happiness one to five years ago?  On this podcast the goal is to help clear your walls painted into place by smartphones, computers, friends and coworkers.  Everyone of us are clogged up and spoiling like eggs in an hot un-refrigerated atmosphere of endless change.  Knowing what is versus what was is not a step forward.  Looking at yourself in the mirror to count the wrinkles is quite damaging if the only focus you hold is having a clear complexion from chapters already told.  I host a podcast called The Daily Ray Of Light.  For the past seven months we've read from 2001.  In the weeks ahead we're going to be face to face with the daily written martial put into place September 11, 2001 forward.  When we go back where is your heart?  Respecting what is makes you a greater teacher by way of helping others stay free of the weight that made you make weird faces in the rear view mirror.  What do I expect to find on this journey through September 11, 2001 forward?  I'm really not sure.  I know the writing is there but I've not been back in 18 years.  In going back where is my heart?

If We Are Here What Do We Have Here

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There are countless days that I step into what's been written and find myself questioning today's lesson.  When I jumped onto this path of being true to the presence of activating accountability nowhere did it say that I had a choice of what's being shared.  I see my social network numbers drop like huge rain drops the very second I bring up God or the universe.  Religion and spirituality are extremely personal but if you look between what pushes you away there's going to be a mustard seed.  On this podcast I reach back to September 2016.  That's almost three years ago.  You can't argue with a self that's already been here and gone.  We try to don't we?  Living in that past that we can so easily change by shuffling up the experience and yet when you waddle through the daily writing all that has been inked into place can't be erased.  Curiosity always kills the cat.  I still read love letters shared when my wife and I first met twenty seven years ago.  I love reading things that have been handwritten because there's always a mustard seed you didn't see the last time you dropped by.  Doodles or pencil sketches never look the same way two days straight.  That's why we add to them or throw them away.  The interpretation of the moment no longer carries with it the same emotional connection and the newer you finds it difficult to relate.  Between 1997 and 2012 I used to physically paint inside my books of daily writing.  I love opening the protective cases where they presently rest and smell the acrylic and oils.  I've been here but what do we have here?  Here in the present!  In the now!  What you've been doing everyday for numerous years shows your inner being that you are here but what do you have here?  What mustard seed do you keep missing?

Beyond What Used To Be

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More and more everyday the majority of us are gaining valuable experience in a forever changing work environment only to realize what you've personally grown with isn't a plus on your resume but rather a wall. The term Used To Be is what keeps a lot of very talented and gifted people from succeeding because decision makers are set on finding a new source of energy and not the well oiled trials and trails of dedication and loyalty. I laugh this stuff off because this is how the NFL and NBA have changed the workplace. Lebron James job hopping is the norm. Nobody truly cares about what he did in Miami or Cleveland, they're more interested in how he's going to help regenerate the Los Angeles Lakers. Your job is no different. On this podcast we talk about how having experience means nothing. The real day to day player needs to hit the floor knowing solutions with a return on the investment. Your past means nothing to them and everything to the voices in your head. Once you've agreed with the inner self that you've become a Used To Be the power of growth turns into a stone thrown against a mountainside. Its not about what you used to be but rather who and what you're going to be. The only thing that stands in your way are the computers connected to Indeed, Monster, Ziprecruiter and every job placement center that still thinks a resume holds strength. Show me the boss that cares about your past. Most leaders are too far into the future. The Avengers are yesterday. This isn't a negative but rather an open eye to awareness. Reengage by washing who you used to be from your face.

Teach Me What You Know

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I've spent many a summers sitting outside wondering where the birds, deer, snakes and other creatures go when the wind begins to blow.  It's as if they've got this strange unique way of suddenly becoming invisible!  I hated the wind as a child.  Growing up in Montana meant listening to those winter Chinook winds from Yellowstone National Park and the extremely powerful storms escaping the Rocky Mountains during the summer.  My way around it was a small collection of 8-track tapes that were quickly slipped into the machine where I could turn up the volume of the earphones to the point of no longer participating with what nature was generating.  I've always believed that's the reason why I got into radio.  Where there's music I find safety.  On this podcast we look into the ways we escape our personal storms.  How we prepare for things we don't see coming.  How assumption endlessly tries to write a story that doesn't exist.  Just like the animals during the summer storms we've individually developed our own way of becoming invisible only to learn that once the storm is over it's time to pick up the pieces.  How many hurricanes is your mind body and soul currently preparing you for?  Will the Weather Channel folks help you share the story?  Probably not.  As a martial artist we are trained to face the winds of change and simply say, "Teach me what you know so that we can grow."

Message In A Bottle

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As kids we did it.  Maybe more as adults.  A belief system.  What is my purpose?  Where are the plans?  In my daily writing I compared such a walk to that of a message in a bottle tossed out to sea.  One day it will land on a sandy shore but who will be chosen to read?  On this podcast we touch on the layers of what is hidden away.  Messages.  What if that's what it's supposed to be?  Through your lessons learned it requires no true action or reaction you're designed to be just a message.  How long are you out to sea?  What if the hand written well thought out paragraph or many have faded and the eyes that see can find no reason to activate what you bring?  How can you communicate what was to be the message?  Some call this sort of writers speak being that of too artsy or too spiritual.  A bottle set free on the ocean is more like those Hollywood movies where people set out to locate the way.  That's what we were taught in martial arts.  The foot fist way.  I looked at my instructor one day and said, "Teach me this way thing."  His reply put me inside the waters of a different ocean, "We don't teach the way.  You have to locate the way."  I thought it was God calling me to a more religious life only to learn I wasn't quite as deep with my spirituality as I seemed.  The hardcore goers and followers saw less of my message in the bottle which pushed me like the wind to walk a different direction.  Rather than being open with my mindfulness in the presence of now the choice was to be clear.  Clear the closets of what's already been shared.  Know why you're standing there.  Little did I know that would lead to leaving people or them dropping me because this kind of talk is nonsense in the way of so many not knowing their own way.  Messages in a bottle.

Calming The Circle Before Breaking Down The Dots

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I totally grasp the expectations required for teamwork to be a daily discipline.  Being a creative person I study a lot of human behavior and find it fascinating to watch how teams don't jell because so many are lost as to whom their individual is.  No team can take shape without there being a process of growth by the individual.  The victories and losses that help shape the courage and confidence required by the team at work.  On this podcast we bust open a can of continuation.  For there to be this moment of your eyes reading my weird way of looking at life a seed had to fall from a living pine then be covered and protected by the soils below.  No one knows how long a tree stands in a forest before its turned into a sheet of paper to which I used in August of 2016 to write out this thought about teamwork.  It's now July 2019.  For that seed, an individual to reach our place of community and connection, that single individual had to stretch it's limbs and endure several different types of storms for us to be able to openly talk about teamwork.  Continuation.  The reality of the subject is we are only part of the story which will live long after we are gone.  Learning how to break down the dots that make up the circle teaches your senses to be more aware of the individuals required to make what goes around to stay around.  Unmasking your individual self is a journey.  Trusting that self.  Learning how to talk to that self.  Building with that self.  Look at how many 2x4's are put into place to keep a house from falling.  Now envision the single seed that was planted to make the house happen.  There's an I in teamwork.  Learn to respect each others individualisms and lets grow together as a team.

Breaking Free From The Echo

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My daily writing.  August 30, 2016 I wrote: Too often our choice is to participate with the echo when in reality God created you to make the sound.  I would love to end it there.  Your personal interpretation means more to your creative soul.  This decision we make daily to live in an echo.  We do so to fit in.  To be accepted.  Because your boss told you so.  It's what research shows.  Yet it was Mark Twain that clearly stated, "Do not lose your creative accent!"  No person on the planet thinks like you.  Nobody creates like you.  We are inspired and empowered to move in every direction but the destination of what you bring forward will always be your own sound.  On this podcast we talk about being a survivor in that echo.  To be where everybody else is because of less judgement.  Yet how often do you see the image of yourself in the mirror and find fault in the way you breathe?  Too often our choice is to participate with the echo when in reality God created you to make the sound.  My father and several people after him have always called me a total smart a**.  They've never been comfortable with a lot of things I say and stand up for.  So I've earned the label of being that smart a**.  What label has your voice earned you?  Are you the sound or the echo?

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 160

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Learning how to take those moments of words being shared and allowing them the needed purpose to be activated in your present place of growth. My father would always say things like, "Stop being a know it all and begin growing with all." Endlessly we remind ourselves to keep clear of the past. It's one of those things we can easily change by way of creative thought. In doing so we miss out on the real reason why our journeys were led in such directions. On this podcast I celebrate the passing of two brothers and a father. Sounds morbid right? Not when you begin to realize the words planted in conversations shared might not have been for that moment of release but rather your unexpected challenges and changes today. Being grateful for the continuation that most never talk about and yet it's always available to touch.

Next Level Serving

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I'm no expert on how to dig in deep and serve but I do take note of how I serve, when I serve and why I serve. Being aware of what serving is teaches the mind body and soul to be more giving and less of a mental hoarder of energy and spirit. On this podcast we drop the four walls of belief and travel the trails of the invisible walkers that lift serving to a level of universal. Learning how to allow energy to move through each step or spoken word which then creates a positive loving reaction to those receiving the moment. So many gather in large groups to serve the community but can you pull it off as a solo? Unlocking the identity of what serving is helps teach the everyday student to not search for places to serve but rather to let the universe move you toward it. A lot of students with reading problems need mentors this summer. Elderly citizens on 100 plus degree days need a simple check in moment from your heart. Instead of dropping a couple of bucks into the pocket of a person of homelessness why not take the time to hear their story. They honestly could have a skill that society no longer sees because what we see in their appearance isn't that perfect workplace atmosphere and yet he or should could be the greatest employee hired. Look at what we say with rescued cats and dogs. It amazes me how we praise them for being unconditional with love and spirit but a person of homelessness gets a bad rap. Serving... How do you serve yourself without expecting something in return? Do you take the time to listen to why you hate your job or why certain people bring tremendous silence to your reasons to be greater? Shrugging your shoulders is what we did in elementary school. No day passes that we aren't given a valuable lesson to share forward. I'm guilty of it keeping it a little too long. Serving isn't what we do when we're in the mood. Serving isn't a Sunday after church thing. Serving is every step you take. How are you letting what's been given to you go?

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 159

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It's completely human to think we're instant stars. Television shows like American Idol, Americas Got Talent and The Voice all take from the depths of the invisible and suddenly put a face on possibility. What we don't see are the personal struggles beyond the three minutes they're featured each week and we don't get to experience the afterlife of where those that once stood on that stage presently play out their shape of art. On this podcast I openly discuss the importance of process. The journal I'm reading from was purchased at the Billy Graham Library in July of 2015. I penned out my first thoughts inside it's pages on August 6, 2015. The final page was reached on April 24, 2019. Today's date is July 1, 2019. A lot of numbers right? Look beyond the situation at hand and see that it required nearly four years of discipline to reach where we presently stand. They don't teach you this stuff at Michaels and every art school on the planet. We're designed to flop the money down on the desk and be labeled a living legend in two to six months or shorter. The problem isn't always the student but the expectation of society. In order to be recognized and or accepted certain positions and places need to be met to belong to our team. Rather than let the wind and winter snow help shape the rock, the physical actuality becomes tomorrows zombies. Just showing up at work because it keeps the lights on. Your creative energy is at an all time low but you're afraid to talk about it. The fear of the unknown keeps you in discomfort because any feeling is better than numb. Take the step to locate a project that's been around longer than three years. Spend some time writing about the uphill battles and itty bitty victories. Know in your place of now that you're always growing and you've got to give that area of your path a lot more respect than it's receiving.