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Category: Life Insights

Category: Life Insights

You Can’t Receive the Attention That You Can’t Give Yourself

I like to be adored, admired, respected.  Supported, taken care of, pampered, even.   Who doesn’t, right?   And I am fortunate to have people in my life who send me those delicious feelings.   The problem is, I am not always receiving them.   How ungrateful! I chide myself. …

November 29, 2020 November 29, 2020 Life Insights
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The Quality of Questions

The problem, I am starting to realize, is that I am focusing too much on answers. I wrack my brain trying to come up with answers, and most of the times I can conjure some of them. But I’ve lived 4+ decades and there are some places where I remain …

November 17, 2020 November 17, 2020 Life Insights  questions / Tom Volkar
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Path Upward Is Dark

Have you seen the film “Shawshank Redemption”? Here’s a little spolier for you. Our wrongly convicted protagonist attempts to escape the prison. By crawling through a sewer pipe that is barely big enough for him. For 500 yards (457 meters). If you were told that the path upward is a …

November 9, 2020 November 9, 2020 Life Insights  Shawshank Redemption
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You Can’t Leave Behind What You Hate

You can’t leave behind what you hate. OK so that’s not a literal statement. You can leave behind any specific thing or person that you hate. But the experience of hating that thing or person? It will continue in one shape or form, even as you try to leave behind …

November 5, 2020 November 5, 2020 Life Insights  hate
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Music as a Gift to Songwriter

Songwriting is a funny thing. You’d think that you sit down and write music that reflects how the writer is feeling at the moment. And that is what happens some of the times. But other times depending on where the fingers fall on the fretboard, music pops out totally different …

November 3, 2020 November 3, 2020 Ari's Diary / For Musicians / Life Insights  inspiration / Songwriting
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