Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Should we think Small or Big?

This morning I took my morning walk with my pooch Conrad. I slapped on the ear buds dialed up a Super Soul conversation with Oprah and Paulo Coelho.   He wrote the International best selling book The Alchemist. The book's main theme is about finding one's destiny.

Great talk the concept that resonated with me was when he said "think small and your life will be small, think big and your world will be big." What to do what to do...

The other day I was listening to Don Miguel Ruiz the author of the 4 Agreements. He said you can find God is in the space in between your thoughts. The more practice and the longer you can be still in between the thoughts is where you will find God.


I AM LOVE
I AM LOVE
I AM LOVE


Some cool things to check out:

Classic Beastie Boys instrumental album The Mix-Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8bVyanWGs&list=OLAK5uy_nDZKy8NZrmO3mzMZzldfJx-zRUNehlwNg&index=2

Eat this, help heal the planet, your body and mind... never miss meat again:

https://www.beyondmeat.com/

Monday, June 10, 2019

BACK TO MUCK IT UP...

June 10 2019 

12 1/2 years since the last time I wrote on this blog.  Interesting to find it and read about the daily thoughts, travels and trials of someone that I once was.   A good man trying to figure why we are alive, why we live in time and space and what to do about it.  Trying to push the edges of reality and trying to stay off grid. 

Since then:

  •  I took  full time residence and job at a Silent Meditation Retreat Center
  • Met singer/songwriter and helped her release 3 albums and travel all over the place selling cd's out of our the van we lived in. 
  • broken up with by said singer/songwriter 
  • Met the love of my life, got married, had a boy and adopted another for total of two boys and 1 boy dog. 
  •  My beloved Mom passed away
  • 6 years now working full time presenting & promoting live and recorded music.  Lots of bike rides, camping trips, snotty noses, bloody knees and ah ha moments of pure love. 
  • raising said boys, trying to catch up on some sleep! 



Now I spend good amounts of time working to figure out how to be a gentler person, to cool the flames, love all beings,  find inspiration in the day to day middle class Dad struggle, to understand and rise up to the responsibility of being a parent, a husband,  tax payer, employee.  

Looking for what David Brooks calls his new book... The Second Mountain. 

But somedays I want to say...... fuck it and take my family around the world on a shoestring, or to borrow a shit ton of money and get some investors and open up a plant based restaurant and rock n roll music venue that could double as retreat and education center, or just sit and be grateful and let the flow take me in and go dig some holes or wash some dishes. 

I Have few regrets and when mindful I'm grateful for every moment.  I'm living an amazing life and I'm just getting started! 

Things you should check out:

https://wickedhealthyfood.com/  Home of the Sarno Brothers who are changing the idea of eating plants and what this can do for our planet and our bodies and minds. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaCrQL_8eMY   just a pure bad ass in every sense of it! 

love peter