Your life is made of your choices and your choices are your life.

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love, and then we return home. -Indigenous Australian proverb

“We need the tonic of wildness... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.” (Walden, HDT)

“Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a Border Collie for a pet. It needs to work or it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble.” -Elizabeth Gilbert @GilbertLiz (book: Big Magic)

“We must risk delight. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.” Jack Gilbert (from Big Magic by @GilbertLiz )

No one ever thinks they are electing a dictator.

Could Uber and/or @Lyft coordinate free/reduced cost rides for voters to voting locations across USA in November?

Just as we teach children to observe physical hygiene for its benefits to our health, we need to teach them to cultivate emotional hygiene. They need to learn how to tackle their destructive emotions and achieve peace of mind.

Cool tech by@SoundwaysMedia created and thriving in the Deep South! We Are Memphis Start_Co #bringyoursoul x.com/ecmathews/stat…

Do we now live in a world where it’s the athletes who speak on behalf of the people? I’m about ready to support a Sportsocracy. It’s got to be better than where we are now... x.com/chrisbhaynes/s…

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. - Pablo Picasso

“Managers of creative organizations must hold lightly to goals and firmly to intentions.” - Ed Catmull (Book: Creativity, Inc. by Edwin Catmull )

#gratitude.

I feel that it’s crucial to have a clear recognition of the value of your objective. That's the important thing. Recognizing that your objective is worthy, because it involves others' welfare or the general well-being of the community, gives you the determination to pursue it.

Most helpful book I’ve read in a while! Creativity, Inc. - Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Edwin Catmull (recommended by Eric Mathews )

Please watch: A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom (Tracee Ellis Ross | TED2018) ted.com/talks/tracee_e… via TED Talks

When did it become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does?

A leader's job is not to put greatness into people. Rather, it is to recognize that it already exists, and to create the environment where that greatest can emerge and grow. - Brad Smith, CEO, Intuit (@IntuitBrad )

We must believe that Change is possible before Change will happen.