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Apr 16 2015
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LTMP Podcast 4: Our instruments make our music and our music writes our story.

Episode 4: The instruments make our music and our music writes our story.

This week we discuss the journey to finding and gathering the instruments that make our music, Tony Hsieh and his book Delivering Happiness, and the music of The Villagers.

You can find this week’s podcast in iTunes by clicking here.

Godspeed in your music making.

Book: Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh – CEO Zappos.

Music: The Villagers 

Link to The Villagers on Spotify.

Lyrics from The Villagers song, Courage

Do you really wanna know,
About these lines on my face?
Well, each and every one is testament to
All the mistakes I’ve had to make
To find courage
It’s a feeling like no other
Let me tell you, yeah
Courage
In harmony with something other than your ego
Courage
The sweet belief of knowing nothing comes for free
For free…
Courage
It’s a feeling like no other
Let me tell you, yeah
Courage
And harmony with something other than your ego
Courage
The sweet belief of knowing nothing comes for free

May you hear the questions of the universe this week. May you hear the flower’s petals ask if you if you’re in bloom. May you have the courage to respond. May you hear the mountain invite you to come climb. May you find the courage to start the climb. May you seek to find those instruments that were originally poured into you. May you find the courage to pour them back out, to contribute, and to make the world around you a better place.

Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.

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Apr 09 2015
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Augusta Thoughts…

Dabbling doesn’t lead to mastery.

Enjoy the course, focus on the pins.

The scorecard knows no difference between a putt and a drive.

And of course…“Yep… Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing… Somethin’ we was born with… Somethin’ that’s ours and ours alone… Somethin’ that can’t be taught to ya or learned… Somethin’ that got to be remembered… Over time the world can, rob us of that swing… It get buried inside us under all our wouldas and couldas and shouldas… Some folk even forget what their swing was like…” The Legend of Bagger Vance Steven Pressfield

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Apr 08 2015
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LMTP Podcast 3: Crayons

This week’s podcast can be listened to below or listened and subscribed to in iTunes by clicking here.

Book/Business Segment

Seth Godin

Book: Linchpin: Are you indispensable?

Music Segment

Sleeping At Last

Sleeping At Last on Spotify.

Download the album here.

Watch the lyrics and listen to this song on youtube here.

Lyrics to the song: North

We will call this place our home,

The dirt in which our roots may grow.
Though the storms will push and pull,
We will call this place our home.
 
We’ll tell our stories on these walls.
Every year, measure how tall.
And just like a work of art,
We’ll tell our stories on these walls.
 
Let the years we’re here be kind, be kind.
Let our hearts, like doors, open wide, open wide.
Settle our bones like wood over time, over time.
Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine.
 
A little broken, a little new.
We are the impact and the glue.
Capable of more than we know,
We call this fixer upper home.
 
With each year, our color fades.
Slowly, our paint chips away.
But we will find the strength
And the nerve it takes
To repaint and repaint and repaint every day.
 
Let the years we’re here be kind, be kind.
Let our hearts, like doors, open wide, open wide.
Settle our bones like wood over time, over time.
Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine.
Let the years we’re here be kind, be kind.
Let our hearts, like doors, open wide, open wide.
Settle our bones like wood over time, over time.
Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine.
Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine.
 
Smaller than dust on this map
Lies the greatest thing we have:
The dirt in which our roots may grow
And the right to call it home.

Crayons

Ashton’s writings on crayons are below.

http://ltmpblog.com/2015/03/27/when-is-the-last-time-you-were-asked-if-you-wanted-to-color-something/

http://ltmpblog.com/2011/11/22/do-you-want-to-color/

http://ltmpblog.com/2013/02/12/crayon-thieves/

Benediction:

May you become childlike again. May you take back your crayons and fill your pockets with them…and in every moment of life give them their opportunity to do their thing. May you dip the paintbrush of your business and stroke the canvas with service. May you color your relationships with the crayons love, laughter, hope. May you find the courage and the bravery to to pull the back the veil and bring us the light, the hum, the soul, and the crayons you came here with to be fully used so that we may be changed by your art. When you light up. We light up.

Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.

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Apr 07 2015
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When you shine…

…it warms the dirt for your relationships, moments, and art to grow and bloom.

And so when we say that the hardest thing one will ever do is become who they were originally whispered to be, what we are talking about is the beautiful, hard, and rewarding work of pulling back the veil that keeps the stage of the soul closed.

Because where there’s soul, there’s light.

Where there’s light there’s vision.

Where there’s vision there’s an experience.

Where there’s an experience there’s meaning.

Where there’s meaning there’s fulfillment.

Where there’s fulfillment there’s peace.

Where there’s peace there’s a garden in bloom.

And where there’s a garden in bloom, we’ve then come full circle and waltzed backed to how things should and were meant to be.

All because something – you – shined.

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Apr 02 2015
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LTMP Podcast #2: Presence

Howdy.

In this week’s podcast we venture into a discussion on presence, being in and a part of your moments, participating in and along with spring’s bloom, and much much more.

Also, the podcast is now officially in iTunes and you can subscribe by clicking here.

Godspeed in your music making and may we all continue to grow our capacities so that we can hold more of the next experience.

Show notes:

Quote: As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson

Quote (didn’t make it into the podcast): When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting on the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence. Elkhart Tolle

Ekhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now.

Follow Brynn Gustafson @ https://instagram.com/brynngustafson/

Musical Artist this week that we looked at was David Ramirez. Please give his record a spin by clicking here.

Benediction:
May you be here.
May you be in and with the questions of your children.
May you be in and with the needs of those you serve.
May you be in and with the moments of those that God has given you to experience this place with.
May your eye catch and hold the explosions of the bloom in spring.
And May your soul find the courage to listen and answer the flower’s question, ‘are you in bloom?’

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