Tag: Inspiration
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Reframing the Shame of Things Undone…
The Ten Principles of the original ELAN course encourage 3-D Living: Discovering your passion and Developing the tools to turn passive passion into action in order to Deliver it to your world, large or small. Is there one project that drives you to spend extra-curricular hours to its completion? Most likely, many are left to die on…
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Quote of the Week…
“A musician may suddenly reach a point at which pleasure in the technique of the art entirely falls away, and in some moment of inspiration, he becomes the instrument through which music is played.” Edwin Diller Starbuck, 1866 – 1947
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Knowing versus Feeling…
The Joy of Djembe Drumming Ensemble performed at a local festival last weekend. It was yet another performance stacked on top of many hours of rehearsals, years of learning and practicing together. We took the stage for a mere half hour and played the guts out of new and old rhythms. Was it worth lugging…
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Imperfect Tense…
The definition of the imperfect tense is unfinished…an ongoing action that has not been completed. We are called to perfection, knowing it won’t be achieved. The ongoing progress toward that end is the reward, the journey is the goal, not the destination. Yet our imperfections cause tension; a drive or a need to make a…
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Be Present…
Last weekend I went to a football game. I get that college football is a big deal to many. I don’t get why. But I went along, claiming neutrality and even painting my nails lots of colors to support all the teams. I planned to people-watch and my sister suggested I do so with a theme,…
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Quote of the Week…
“I encourage you to reject rejection. If someone says no, just say NEXT!” Jack Canfield
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M is for…
Last week we talked about the upward swing of Ns, even when they stand for NOs. What about a Maybe? In the publishing world, a very crowded pool is filled with debut authors who splash and scream, asking the lifeguard to notice them, see them, respect them, choose them to be pulled from the churning…
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Confidence Game…
Delving deeply into one field of expertise can build a skill set that flows to other areas. I’m unveiling a new understanding of this phenomenon. As I tone writing and editing muscles, my piano and guitar just-for-fun playing improves during grab as I can practice times. Working diligently in one area winds the inner watch,…
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This Week, a poem…
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.
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