One Timeless Hour in the Most Famous Bookstore in the World (and Wisdom From a Muslim and Christian Mystic)

I walk into Shakespeare and Company, the famous bookstore Sylvia Beach opened in 1919 in Paris.  Upstairs in the reading room, you can feel it’s age.  The old tiled floor, the old, wooden support beams.  Old books sit on old, faded wood shelves. Pictures of great writers hang on the walls.  Through the window, Notre…

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Real Artists Don’t Starve – The 12 Differences Between Starving Artists vs Thriving Artists

Real Artists Don’t Starve by Jeff Goins. It’s an excellent book.  If you are an artist or a writer, it’s an essential.  Even if you are not an artist or writer, you can easily substitute artist with entrepreneur, manager or employee who wants to develop creativity within their company or through a side endeavor. Goins…

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Around The World (of India) In 80 Days: Episode 4 – Patience (and a Bull Takes The Train)

Patience. It’s a requirement while traveling and living in India.  I think that is why India is such a spiritual country. Without the spirituality in India, impatience would be the dominate emotion throughout the bigger cities. Case in point:  I was taking a train from Varanasi to Rishikesh, a 20 hour train ride, yet my patience…

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Around The World (of India) in 80 Days – Episode 2 – A Bus Ride in South India (and the Observations That Come With It)

South India – Three Hour Bus From Pondicherry to Tiruvannamalai Before getting on the bus, I read Gandhi for 20 minutes at the bus station.  My bench.  My book.  Late morning.  The merciless India sun starting to whip me while I sat reading.     A dirty man walked up to me and wanted my water.  I…

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