False dreams fail us, lost dreams derail us, stolen dreams demoralize us. The dream is everything so don’t be surprised by the myriad of distractions, challenges, and adversities during the treasure hunt. Keep looking, keep hoping, keep listening to your heart, and keep seeking the pure glimpses of heaven all around you as you seek your dream. And once you find it, hang on to it and let it be a light that awakens another.
Read MoreDuring this season, many of us find ourselves having unscheduled moments. The picture above was taken during one of those moments this week near our new home in the Vail Valley of Colorado. These moments may be your greatest gift during this Christmas season. Time to think.
Read MoreDo you ever feel like time is slipping by and your goals and dreams are dissipating quickly? Do you ever feel like life is passing you by, and the world doesn’t seem to notice or care? Have circumstances sucked the life out of your passions? Is your inspiration to achieve greatness down to the last ember in the fireplace? Do you remember Kurt Warner?
Read MoreCaptain “Sully” Sullenberger took off from New York on January 15, 2009, not knowing that his passenger jet would hit a flock of birds at approximately 2,000 feet. He had about 20 seconds to make a decision of where to put down the plane in the middle of New York City with 155 people on board. Miraculously, he landed the US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson between two bridges, and every passenger on the plane survived. Later he said, “Every minute of my career as a pilot was preparation for that one defining moment.”
Read MoreNothing is as it seems. I was glad to have a new perspective that transcended the ordinary. It took me to the place of parables, a place where the supernatural settles upon the natural, revealing the true story being written.
Read MoreGreatness is expressed most authentically and powerfully as selfless exceptionalism during the defining moments of both life’s greatest performance achievements and life’s greatest challenges…
Read MoreIn the antique shop people often enter a story, a story of lost dreams. They see the items of their youth and remember a time when they, too, had a dream. But like the old and lifeless porcelain dolls with torn and tattered lace, life has passed them by. So too has their dream.
Read MoreWhen Academy Award winner Robert Duvall and Hollywood descended upon Utopia, Texas, to make a movie, Seven Days in Utopia, no one could have predicted what would happen.
Read MoreI shared last week about our recent harrowing battle with COVID for three weeks in a hotel far from home. There are heroes to the story.
Read MoreWhat a difference a few days makes… If you have noticed, over the past three weeks, we had to post several blogs from previous years. Here is part of the story…
Read MoreI need one minute in Utopia today. I’m assuming you do too or you wouldn’t waste your time reading this. I’m sitting in a hotel room staring out a window at a busy highway at 5:30 am in a place far from home. Actually I am homeless at the moment.
Read MoreAfter a while I was dancing rather than counting my steps, playing music instead of notes. I was having fun. The transition from trying to letting was profound. Something was awakening within. A sense of simple enlightenment was seeping in to the hardness of my soul. Could it be that art had to be learned with a different heart? Could it be that performance is art? And art is not about the outcome…
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