Daily Random Shit: Be There Before It’s Too Late I hope you get to share the coming holidays with those you love long before it’s too late. Love you all ❤️ Continue reading Daily Random Sh*t: Be There Before It’s Too Late
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer Turns out that famous recording artists are people with all the flaws, failings and feelings of everyone else you’ve ever known. As much as that should be a “duh,” I was pretty disappointed … Continue reading The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer & The Community of Friends
As the world continues to look like a battlefield, the following video rolled across my download stream. Matt Harding actually began recording himself doing his unique jig while traveling in Vietnam in 2003, but the video that many of us … Continue reading Video Tuesdays: Dancing Across the World/Where the Hell is Matt 2012
“… I look in the mirror every morning and ask myself, If today were the last day of my life, would I do what I’m about to do today? And whenever the answer has been ’no’ for too many days … Continue reading Safe Harbor or What’s Next?
What is it about the holiday season that insists on compressing so much good and bad into the same moment? I couldn’t make it to California so when my siblings got together at mom’s place Saturday I arranged to video-chat … Continue reading Kats – Too Soon Gone But Ever Here
What does it mean to be an American? What was it that our military veterans sacrificed themselves for? Is it just where one is born or is there a quality or belief that can be said to be American? I … Continue reading Video Wednesdays: The American Dream
This story showed up in my feed last week from CBS News, “On the Road with Steve Hartman,” about a NYC photographer who was creating a series of portraits based on having strangers posing for him in slightly intimate positions … Continue reading Video Mondays: The NYC Photographer and Human Touch
In a world of over seven-billion I know that I’m one of the lucky ones. The opportunities that I took advantage of as a young man and the endless second-chances that I’ve had were the benefits of the hard work … Continue reading Blog Action Day: Human Rights & Hope
It shouldn’t take a genius to recognize that one of the first steps to fixing a problem is to get a number of people to talk about the problem and create a buzz around the problem. In our world of instantaneous news and 15-second sound bites what we get in possible news-overload we lose because we can’t seem to focus on any one thing long enough to really do anything about it. Blog Action Day is an attempt to get bloggers to raise the level of sustained buzz on a particular topic, this year it is human rights, to begin the process of doing something meaningful about the issue. If you have a blog or participate in a blog, get on board and participate in the conversation.
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I’ve sat in enough bars and dives on the West Coast and in Florida to know that some of the best music I’ve ever heard has come from the beautiful souls who just want to share their gift and maybe … Continue reading Video Fridays: Sittin’ On The Dock of The Bay, Gimme Shelter & Imagine – Playing For Change project
The more cynical amongst us might chide that it was never really alive, but that doesn’t answer the question. I’ve been posting online for over a decade and have had my masters degree students post as part of their class … Continue reading Is Blogging Dead?
In the wake of the recent madness with all sides lobbing more hate and cries for justice this 16-year-old survivor of a Taliban attack challenged the world in her address to the UN: “One child, one teacher, one book and … Continue reading Video Tuesdays: Malala Day At UN: Teen Activist Shot By Taliban UN Speech
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