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A Lifetime Without Country Makes For A Lot To Catch Up On…
I’ve spent a lifetime shunning country music. There was no substantive reason behind it, I just simply did not care for it. Now, I have grown up in a musical household, a father who uses music to teach me poignant lessons to this day, let alone to pay the bills in his younger years and … Read more
Humans are…
A song can evoke a world of experience. A moment can hold a treasure of history. Time can hold a painful, yet exciting constancy. I have recently been reflecting on how I came to this very place in my life. I live in Hawai’i – a statement that I would have never dreamt of saying. … Read more
Once More, If You Will.
In search for a word from the wise, Found: wound words that excise, Those wavering ways of old, Confidence inserted, a taste of the bold. So this is what it feels like, To be one of those fear-free, Those ready and willing to strike, Simply – to – be… me, Relaxing, I just might decree. A … Read more
There’s A Run of Luck
I haven’t been to faithful to this blog in quite some time. However, I hope to rekindle some inertia in the right direction with a new idea I thought about. I decided to put together a playlist blog. If there is one thing that will never be a mystery to me, it is that I … Read more
In Memory of Ted Quillin: Your Grandpa Talked About The Good Ole Days, My Grandpa Lived Them
Early this morning, my family and I lost my grandfather, Theodore Ross Quillin. He was an exceptional human being. This exceptionalism is what brought him the hippest of scenes back in the day, radio. His rich and deep voice coupled with his fun and jovial disposition led him to popularity and success in the tough … Read more
Album Review: Panic! at the Disco’s “Vices & Virtues”
Panic! at the Disco is back on the block with a new album rekindling the flames of their first chart-topping debut “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” (2006). After going through some band member changes and some parting of ways, original members Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith are back at it and making music that … Read more
Goodness
What is good? What does it mean for something to be good or bad? Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated in his essay “Self-Reliance” that man… “must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.” I rather like this approach to the meta-moral question above, for the most common … Read more
Human Being v. Human Doing
Last week, in an art course I am taking, we had a guest lesson from a gentleman who calls himself Yoshi. He is a Japanese calligrapher. He had a thick accent and his lesson was full of brilliant gems of asian philosophy that, as they always seem to do, found their way into relevance within the process … Read more
Dear Valentine
For those who condemn this day as a contrived corporate holiday, I am sorry. May a lover never use this day as but merely as an excuse to dote or display their amorous sentiments for the one they hold dear. May this day give the necessary nudge or significance to those shy lovers who sit on … Read more
