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Brothers, a Russian Man wearing a medallion told me to read the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and set up periodic meetings with translucent people whether they are dead or not, to help you find strategies and creative solutions for problems. It is embarrassing that an old man seeks the help of ghosts like a child sometimes I think but a living work is not afraid to make mistakes, and focuses on the task at hand.

Alan Watts. Learn to compassionately make fun of what you fear.
Albert Einstein. Curiosity often lightens the way.
Allen Iverson. Be graceful with a Gift from God.
Arundhati Roy. Reflexive hostility to free thinking is the domain of gatekeepers, and you are a burglar.
Audrey Hepburn. Glamour will manifest from the origin of a well kept spirit.
Axl Rose. Be uncanny in the eyes of children, and take revenge on their behalf.
Bill Murray. Recognize that you are both the current edition, and a part of the volume.
Bob Dylan. Know the one you trust.

Bruce Lee. Train to become an instrument of fluent expression.
-April 2025: I am working on going into the ocean for twenty one days straight. I see how a complicated problem has a simple solution.

Cal Ripken. Employ a diligent work ethic wherein, practice, and process are play.
Chris Burkard. Your business is the ocean, and the camera is your friend.
Dave Chappelle. Learn what it is to make eye contact.
Django Reinhardt. Joy experienced is applied to technical expression on an instrument.
Eddie Murray. Awareness is balance.
Eric Kuhn. Play music the way that Samurai lived by a code.

George Harrison. Record music, repeatedly, in the places where you play.
-April 2025: I saw Paul’s exhibit of photographs from the early sixties. You guys were having a good time and it reminded me of the time you were in my house while I was sleeping. The line between the living and the dead can be crossed, and encourages being spiritually attuned.

George Lucas. Allow the limitations to provide the solution.
Jimi Hendrix. Bring athleticism to the expression of musical ideas.
Jon Miller. Do the job you love, every day.
Joseph Campbell. Reading will limber up the mind for the recognition of truth.
Maria Bamford. Work with what you have, right now.
Mary Russell. Archive your photographs intentionally before and after you shoot.
MIA Keep a bold and unified aesthetic with a sense effortlessly.
Michael Jordan. Let the desire to win allow communication between form and formlessness.
Paul McCartney. Make an accurate gesture based on what you do well, and repeat outward from the center.,
Peter Beard. Travel, take pictures, and document as Art.
Sleepy Todd. To master the art of playing music is hand in hand with the art of listening.
Terry Musika. Learn to switch the vantage, back and forth, from a visionary to a pragmatist.
Thelonious Monk. Learn to quickly play only what you can hear.
Todd Prager. Discipline is a garden grown in private, whereas humor is to be shared.
-May 2025: At the time of typing this, I have jumped into the ocean forty three days in a row.

Wes Anderson. Create where you want to be, and it will become your life.
-May 2025: You start with where you are, creating the scene just as you see fit. Watch how it emanates outward.

Woody Guthrie. Making music is the same as taking photographs.