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This Week: The Fascinating Proust Questionnaire — Come Answer Question #1

The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one’s personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust. At the end of the nineteenth century, when Proust was still in his teens, he answered a questionnaire in an English-language confession album belonging [...]

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Another Incredible Video By My Friend @JeremyCowart

Our friend Jeremy made another great video.  This time of a country band no less – well they are sort of country.  Anyway, we, along with Michael Moore, collaborated on this hi def extravaganza of rock and southern exposure. Narrative: I didn’t see it coming.  For crying out loud, all I was doing was checking [...]

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We Are All Made of Shipwrecks, Every Single Board”

“Wooden Heart” by Listener We’re all born to broken people on their most honest day of living and since that first breath… We’ll need grace that we’ve never given I’ve been haunted by standard red devils and white ghosts and it’s not only when these eyes are closed these lies are ropes that I tie [...]

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A Creative’s Prayer

Let me lament for forgetting daily to heed creativity’s call, And may I be cleansed from the deceit of the mundane, Because the lure of life dulled me and appealed to reason alone. Grant that I be salted with new ideas, With every dream tempered from my soul, Every passion fitted excellently to opportunity, To [...]

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The Lazy Creatives’ Way To Get Thru Life

These unforgettable and timeless “Budism’s” from Bud Royer of Royers Cafe, Round Top, TX will help you get through life in a more enjoyable way! “The greatest achievements were at first, and for some time, dreams.” — James Allen “A lot of people can tell you what to do but very few can tell you why they do [...]

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How To Have A Slow All-Day Italian Feast in Fast-Paced America (The Recipes, Wine & Timetable)

Many of you have asked about our annual Memorial Day Italian Feast. Here is how you can utilize any holiday or special occasion to have an all-day celebration of your own. It is definitely counter-cultural. It may seem un-American. But spending an entire day eating and drinking with friends is one of the most spiritual things you can [...]

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Send A Royers’ Pie (The Ultimate Slice of Home) To A Soldier In The MidEast

My new friend Bud Royer and his team at Royers Round Top Cafe have a worthy OBJECTIVE: To ship a Royers’ pie, “THE ULTIMATE SLICE OF HOME!!!”, to 1000s of our brave fighting troops serving overseas for July 4th and 5,000 for Thanksgiving & Christmas …. THEY ARE ALREADY AT 450 PIES FOR THE 4TH!!! Be a part [...]

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My Top 5 Lines From A Song

“If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can’t I paint you?” — Bread “I want to live where soul meets body, and let the sun wrap its arms around me, and bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing, and feel, feel what its like to be new.” — Death Cab for Cutie [...]

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3 New Books I Cannot Put Down

Alone Together by Sherrry Turkle (Why we expect more from technology and less from each other.) A riveting and often disturbing portrait of the future by America’s leading expert on how computers affect us as humans. Turn off your e-mail and smartphones and read this book the old fashioned way. You’ll thank me. Cognitive Surplus [...]

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Do You Remember Who Brought You To The Dance?

The dance of success, that is. The tango of today. The flamenco of good fortune. Chances are—if you have experienced success in life, someone provided the opportunity for your “big break.” For me it was a man named Jack Price. Jack is a boisterous music evangelist from Texas. We are as different as night and [...]

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Get Rid Of Your Self-Confidence Problems Once And For All

The day I moved to Nashville in the Spring of 2000 after twenty years in South Florida, my head began spinning. A few weeks before while playing golf with my new Pastor and boss, I asked about my responsibilities on the first Sunday. He casually told me that someone else would be leading the music, [...]

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Afternoon Shower In Paris — My Latest Watercolor

“Afternoon Shower In Paris” 12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor $500. Limited Edition Giclee Prints on Watercolor Paper are priced as follows: 8.5″ x 11″ $55. US 9″ x 13″ $65. US 11″ x 17″ $85. US 13″ x 19″ $105. 16″ x 20″ $150. 17″ x 22″ $170. 17″ x 25″ $175. Shipping is $4.99 per [...]

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These Are A Few Of My Favorite Words

The power of a word. The more we know, the better we think. The beauty of a word. The more eloquent we are, the more influence we wield. The emotion of a word. The better we communicate, the more charisma we exude. Words. Shakespeare made love to them. Emerson crafted them. Dante emoted them. Here [...]

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The Death of the Alpha Leader

We now live in an automagical world.  A world that is composed of not one future, but multiple futures. A world of self-chosen communities or tribes that are nodes in large, complex networks of such groups. A world in which hierarchal pyramids of control are crumbling and the Taylorism world of precise affluence has become [...]

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Who Else Wants To Be A Social Artist?

Samui Art Gallery, an art blog in Thailand recently did a featured post about me. Here is an excerpt: “Whatever business you run these days, you cannot expect the growth without implementation of social media marketing component in your business plan. And this is no exception for art business. And since we are in art [...]

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