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When you let go of your dreams it can take the better part of a lifetime to catch them again. It makes more sense to never let them go in the first place. Even If they eventually pass away, at least they were yours to hold onto all the while.
"Better is one day with an impossible dream planted firmly in your heart, than a thousand days spent in regret over the one you gave up on." Ray Basile
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." John Steinbeck
I will always be a recovering idea guy. Creative ideas are the life blood that keeps me forever young. The most difficult part of having new ideas is knowing which ones to cultivate and which ones should be pushed aside. I have learned through much experience that when you choose to pursue an idea, that idea becomes a project. It begins as a thought, morphs into a notion, quickly turns into a concept and then it's shaped into an idea. It's merely a blink and a nod before you'll find yourself nurturing a brand new project.
In order to grow any idea regardless if it's brilliant or not, it will take an extended investment of time. How much time depends upon your level of resource and enthusiasm. Trust me, at this point if you plan to develop your idea, by definition it now qualifies as a project.
Much like the passionate wine lovers over at Wannabe Wino, I've closeted a longtime fantasy of owning a vineyard and producing my own mouthwatering vintage. Realizing the immense costs involved in this fantasy, I chose to set it aside until recently when I discovered Crushpad, a San Francisco winery that allows it's members to be the winemaker. I have often romanticized the notion of serving up my own custom brand of wine more than I've desired to operate a vineyard. Crushpad offers wannabe winemakers like myself the chance to explore the art of wine making direct from the cozy glow of my computer screen.
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Taking inspiration from Seth Godin's post entitled Ego, I have chosen to place a handful of my readers front and center on One Man's Highway for a much deserved mention. This is not a ploy coaxing you to stand in the middle of the highway to be splattered by a semi truck. It's my way of expressing appreciation for your valued readership. While I cannot place every reader's name in this post (because I don't have info on who they all are) I can highlight the last 28 blog crawlers that have taken time to leave a comment on one of my posts. An act of kindness that will not go unnoticed.
The real story are the brilliant original paintings by San Francisco based artist "14" as she chooses to go by. Her blog "Gallery of The Absurd" is a fantastic site fueled by paintings featuring celebrity caricatures inspired by popular tabloids. The back story is that "14" created a recent parody of The Simple Life Goes To Camp featuring Paris Hilton in a boat with fresh water crabs hanging off the side. The crabs have since been removed "so to speak" at the request of Hilton's attorney. Life is back to abnormal again with Ms. Hilton while bloggers are still sounding off.
You can find 44 juicy celebrity categories listed at The Gallery of The Absurd including; Brangelina, Farah, Tom Cruise and the extended Paris Hilton section. I found the Alec Baldwin post to be particularly hilarious. A must see gallery for all you A-listers that want to be part of that infinite loop of art imitating life that imitates art.
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How many websites does it take to spell the word chocolate wrong? The answer is 42,800 according to Google. If you search for dark chocloate you will find 12,000 websites that contain a typo of the word chocolate spelled incorrectly as chocloate. I am sheepishly willing to admit that you will find Mr. Besilly neatly nestled in at number (4) four in those Google search results for dark chocloate. Had I spelled the word correctly in my post back on March 26th, you would have never discovered my article buried somewhere around the eight thousand mark. My misspelling of the word chocolate quickly placed me at the front of the entire cyber classroom with chocloate egg on my face wearing that big pointed cap.
"Before you sacrifice everything to reach the top, ask the people there if it's really worth the climb. The fall is always faster than the journey it takes to get there. I encourage you to treasure the journey."
This of course does not apply if you're falling down a bottomless pit. That could take a really long time.
While Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time," appeared on the popular morning show "The View" to voice his opinion on all religion, a gunman on the Virginia Tech Campus killed 32 people and then took his own life in a matter of a few short hours. Bill Maher climbed down from his ivory tower to broad brush all religion saying;
"I think all faith is a distraction. I think it's the greatest con in the world. They're selling an invisible product." Bill Maher News Busters
A young boy stood near the shore captivated by his own reflection cast before him in the tranquil water. With great caution he approached his image in the perfect light, careful to spy if anyone near by could see what he could see. He felt fear and quickly fled the truth he found squandering his courage to the wind. He toiled with great pain from that day forward to gaze upon his true self again, a reflection once fearless and unrestrained.
"What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can all glean a simple but invaluable truth from the Don Imus incident that took place on "Imus In The Morning" on April 4th.
"If you choose to use racial slurs in the workplace, expect to be fired."
