Tuesday, October 29, 2019
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.
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).
Monday, October 28, 2019
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.
Friday, October 18, 2019
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.
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.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
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.
Monday, October 14, 2019
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.
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.
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