Easy.........................

Earl Klugh..................................Heart String

At this age, time goes by fast enough without wishing it would go faster, but still...............

The Muses.................................

Yes......................................Roundabout

Quite the selection................

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Opening paragraphs.............

Charles Howard had the feel of a gigantic onrushing machine:  You had to either climb on or leap out of the way.  He would sweep into a room, working a cigarette in his fingers, and people would trail him like pilot fish.  They couldn't help themselves.  Fifty-eight years old in 1935, Howard was a tall, glowing man in a big suit and a very big Buick.  But it wasn't his physical bearing that did it.  He lived  on a California ranch so huge that a man could take a wrong turn on it and be lost forever, but it wasn't his circumstances either.  Nor was it that he spoke loud or long; the surprise of the man was his understatement.  What drew people to him was something intangible, an air about him.  There was a certain inevitability to Charles Howard, and urgency radiating from him that made people believe that the world was always going to bend to his wishes.
-Laura Hillenbrand,  Seabiscuit:  An American Legend

Fifty years ago...........................

Paul and Paula..............................Hey Paula
(Love the old video, better audio is here)

The lowest of the hanging fruit.............

A tip on discipline from Dick Cavett and Jimi Hendrix

It's no wonder that so much gets done around here

"Paradoxically, the best way to get more done may be to spend more time doing less. "

My business partner may suggest that we have mastered the art.  I'm not so sure.  Anyway, the back story on relaxation:productivity is here.

Thanks Steve

Politispeak, or, why I don't watch TV much..........

Clarke and Dawe demonstrate:  All Birds Are Cats

Heart............................

True, I may appear
unkempt like a rotting tree,
jetsam or flotsam,
but on the right occasion
this old heart can still blossom.

-The Monk Kengei, as translated in The Poetry of Zen

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Timeless counsel...............

Wisdom for the ages, shared freely by the Execupundit, here

The people would sing...............

Emerson, Lake and Palmer..........Lucky Man

Alvin says, "Write down..............."

From the All-Swagga blog comes a post on the importance of "field notes."  Write 'em down.  He offers 28 opportunities.  Here are three:

23. Write down have a drink with stranger and learn something unexpected

24. Write down to “network” means to be a resource for others

25. Write down burning questions you need to ask

Opening paragraphs................

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the where-withal:  call it what you like, money matters.  To Christians, the love of money is the root of all evil.  To generals, it is the sinews of war; to revolutionaries, the shackles of labour.  But what exactly is money?  Is it a mountain of silver, as the Spanish conquistadors thought?  Or will mere clay tablets and printed paper suffice?  How did we come to live in a world where most money is invisible, little more than numbers on a computer screen?  Where did the money come from?  And where did it all go?
Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money

Judgmentalism............

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Fifty years ago..........................

The Beatles.......................Do You Want To Know a Secret

A sign of the times...............

thanks Bilbo

Invest....................

Jim Rohn................Six Days of Labor, One Day of Rest

Can I get an "Amen".........................

"After a lifetime, if we’ve been attentive, we should fall to our knees before the vastness, the ungraspable minutiae of our world."
-Stephen Dunn, as excerpted from this David Kanigan post

Jetboy is on a hot streak...............

............... and nobody (unless it's Skip) has more fun with music.  Check him out - here.