I believe there is music in everything.

I believe there is music in everything.

There is music in everything. The rhythm of words as they’re written. Sentences wrapping around each other and building the soundtrack of our stories. The way the world moves through a camera lens. Images dancing to the pulse of the world. Voices speaking,...
Be completely you in everything you do.

Be completely you in everything you do.

When I was 14 years old, I used to paint my fingernails. Sometimes all black and sometimes paint a few white, too. As an adult in my 40s, I still like to get my toes and fingernails done up, sometimes at 3am. It’s a simple thing, but everything you do,...
Creating is what it is to be human.

Creating is what it is to be human.

You are a storyteller. We all are. It’s what makes us human beings. It began thousands of years ago, communicating with symbols and sounds. We told our stories as autobiographies and mythologies, using our voices, paint, and drums. Now our creative mediums have...
Your story is the most important story you know.

Your story is the most important story you know.

The year I was born was the same year The Rolling Stones released “Exile On Main Street”. I emerged into the world at a hospital in Bemidji, Minnesota. They told my mom I was dead when I was born. Discovering I was alive, my parents named me after a...
Heart and passion are natural.

Heart and passion are natural.

Nature reminds us that we’re all a part of something filled with soul and spirit. No matter what you believe, there is magic found in what’s around us. The ocean and waves. Trees and mountains. The sun and rain. The night sky and the shaking of thunder....