I Am Learning

 "I am learning everyday to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be, to inspire me and not terrify me." -Tracee Ellis Ross

 

Underated Life Advice

 Schedule your fun first.  The vacation. The dinner. The concert. The weekend trip. Put joy on the calendar before work fills it.  Most people work first, play with what's left.  There's never anything left. Book fun like meetings. Treat joy like obligation.  Happiness needs planning too. 

-Scottdelary 

Life is Amazing

 Life is amazing.  And then,

it's awful.  And then

it's amazing.

 And the awful it is 

ordinary and mundane and 

routine. Breathe in the amazing,

hold on through the awful.

and relax and exhale during the

ordinary.

 That's just living heartbreaking,

soul-healing, amazing, awful,

ordinary life.  And it's breathtakingly

beautiful.

 

 

 

A Beautiful Life

 

A beautiful life is not stumbled upon.

It is build.  It is chosen.  It is

nurtured over the years.  A beautiful life is made from the heart not the

head.  It is not one we can rationalize our way into, it's one that must be felt.  A beautiful life is not one that is immediately comfortable, but one grown through the acknowledgement of what is worth being uncomfortable for.  It is not one that is easy.  It is one that is worth it.  

Getting Into The Easter Spirit

 

Michael is not sure about that bunny!

 

No Kings Protest March 28, 2026

 

Buy For Me The Rain

 

Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Founding Member) and his wife Matraca Berg

 

From: Wikipedia:  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was founded in Long Beach, California, in 1966. Founding guitarist Jeff Hanna was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, but his family had moved to Long Beach four years prior.^[1] While in high school, he befriended guitarist Bruce Kunkel, and the two played in a local duo called the New Coast Two.^[2] As they wanted to form a larger group, the two began playing impromptu jam sessions at a Santa Monica music store called McCabe's Guitar Shop.^[3] Through these performances, they recruited four other musicians. These were Jimmie Fadden, who at the time played washtub bass, harmonica, and guitar, along with Ralph Barr (guitar, clarinet), Les Thompson (guitar, mandolin), and Jackson Browne (guitar). All six members also served as vocalists. Browne quit the group after only a few months,^[4] and was replaced by John McEuen, who contributed on guitar, mandolin, banjo, and washtub bass.^[2] They briefly called themselves the Illegitimate Jug Band, due to their playing jug band music without actually having a member who played the jug. Soon afterward, they selected Nitty Gritty Dirt Band as a name,^[1] inspired by their observation that many bands at the time had names that they considered long and unusual, such as Strawberry Alarm Clock.^[5]