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– My new piano album 🎹 “Generations” is available on iTunes, YouTube and Spotify.
– Get my book “The Devil’s Name” 😈 on Amazon!

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Reposting this from @markmanson Sooo good. Especially the second pic.

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I’ve been, oh-so, awaiting this theatre! Ten years ago I told Anna my dream was to live in a condo above a movie theatre. I’m not there yet, but we now have a movie theatre in downtown Grand Rapids with condos. So cool!
#studiopark #grandrapids #celebrationcinemas

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No edits needed here. One of the best paragraphs I think I’ve ever read. From “the voice of knowledge” by Don Miguel Ruiz.

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Boom! AVA. Probably my favorite band of all of time. Can’t wait!!!
@tomdelonge @angelsandairwaves #bestbandever

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We all choose a tool, an approach, a mechanism to deal with our anxiety. Some choose power and some choose silence. But so often those that choose power do so because they don’t feel it, and those that choose timidness do so because they feel rage or strength or conviction and believe that to let it out will hurt someone.
The meek are often afraid to be as strong as they feel.
The proud are afraid of the vulnerability of taking the back seat, believing that putting others first means making yourself last, confirming the place you feel you are in the chain of life.
The trick is to not be fooled by others games or our own.
The healing is to admit that we are all players in a game that have chosen their said tactics. To admit that our confidence is often covering our cowardice, and our silence is sometimes apologizing for our strength.
To not be fooled by our own behavior, to not be convinced by the charade.
I often see the loud and fast talkers be afraid, or, unable to make eye contact, and to them I’d say “Be calm, for true confidence is vulnerable, open and gentle. Yes, gentle. For letting others in and serving them, does not confirm they’re better than you, but simply a reminder that you are no better than them.”
And to the meek I’d say, “Bullshit. Stop playing these quiet background roles. Stop hiding your flame; your intelligence, wisdom, conviction, your passion. Your rising will not hurt others. It may intimidate, scare, or confuse some, but you must put down the sword of indecision you’ve named wisdom, and be brave. For true bravery, is love.”
Both need the courage to step down and to step up. Both need the bravery to equal the playing field and stop comparing themselves to the world around them. For that’s what they both have in common—they judge and critique and place value on people, commodifying them into ranks and categories. Though we’re different, we’re one and the same, and it takes great grace, and strength, and love, to truly see others and ourselves as no less, no more, but one and the same.
So be brave enough to tell the truth; that we are brothers and sisters, we are not in competition, above or below, but together, equal...one.

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Maverick working his magic with the pups!

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