Category Archives: Creativity

Flavor Bouncing Your Life

Often times we wonder, sometimes even to the point of not being able to make a decision, about where we should go with our lives, our relationships, or our careers.

We create an endless domino train of “if-thens” and, in doing so, never take the first step into what could actually and beautifully be.

What if our indecision is actually a lack of understanding about the flavoring combos of life?

What if we started to layer our questions about the direction of our days with questions about the flavors, harmony, and experiences we are truly after in this life?

What if we started with the bass note of joy and from there bounced ideas of peace, friendships, rest, weather, culture, and art until we arrived at a wonderfully calibrated milieu that was uniquely fashioned for each of us?

The video below is from Grant Achatz of Alinea in Chicago. I’ll let you take this metaphor from here.

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Podcast 61: We Stood Upon Stars with Roger W. Thompson

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Roger W. Thompson has become a better version of himself because of the time he has spent in natural wonders of mountains, deserts, and oceans. These are sacred places, where God still speaks through the wild. He records his thoughts by journal through these travels in We Stood Upon Stars, providing insights of the American wilderness and how, if we listen, its Voice will speak truth into our doubts and searches.

You can stream this episode and all other episodes of Let The Music Play Podcast in iTunes or at AshtonGustafson.com.

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Humanity…

…is tuning up…

…and it’s tuning into the key of ‘see’.

This a wonderful waltz towards transfiguration as we, as a body, start to embody being a body.

The media and your lizard brain will convince you that it’s moving towards something that is unraveling and that the arc is bending towards chaos. And you will continue to see it that way if that’s what you want to see.

But if we truly want to understand this and see with the eyes of possibility, we’re going to need to invoke our imagination.

Think of what we have in common..hope, heart, blood, beauty, sorrow, and soul. And the list stretches endlessly longer than what is different about us.

Won’t you be my neighbor? 

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Good words from this week…

Crossed paths with some great words of wisdom this week…

“A house built at a crossroads is a house built on fear.” Roger W. Thompson

“Be open to it being way better than you imagined.” Mike Foster

When it comes to our most cherished relationships, Solidarity > Solutions. Bell and Joel

The Gate by Marie Howe

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