The last five books you’ve read will write the prescription for your next pair of glasses.
You are the average of your five closest friends.
The last five songs you’ve heard will be what you’ll be whistling.
Awareness of such proximity is the great predictor of the people, paths, and melodies that will write the soundtrack of our stories.
Childish:
Jaded, cynical, & emotionally unbalanced. Keeps the score of everyone else, but keeps no records of personal fouls or mishaps. Always asks, “What about the score?”
Childlike:
Surprised, delighted, excited, & wonderfully wonder-filled. Rarely earns points, but rarely thirsts for a scorecard. Surprisingly asks, “Points? What points?”
The seekers are the finders…and the finders (and they all find something) will walk this journey to the reflecting beat of the music that is beating in their chest.
Sunrise. Sunset. Hand on your heart.
When words and ideas enter your eyes and then get hidden in your heart, your thoughts, feelings, and actions will eventually change from such exposure.
Grow your capacity so you can hold more of your next experience.
When you open yourself to take something in and then give yourself time to reflect on it, you will -eventually- have a living/breathing response.
When you read and then you write, eventually it all all starts to add up.
Readers are writers. Writers are readers. Reading writers, eventually, fully experience the depths and heights of all of their experiences.
Sponges > Calculators.
The music is what we get to see, hear, and experience when you bring us the light, sound, tune, and meaning of what you’ve been seeing, hearing, and experiencing.
It’s one big game of ‘I Spy’ we’ve got going here.
Don’t be a spectator.
We’ve both got some joy on the line.
‘Do you have a story?’
Ashton.Gustafson 