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| July 6, 2011 Sunrise 5:48 am |
"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist." -- Louis Nizer
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Showing posts with label Bob on Bass. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
SUNRISE - July 6, 2011
"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist." -- Louis Nizer
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
SUNRISE - July 5, 2011
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| July 5, 2011 Sunrise 5:48 a.m. |
"If a man does his best, what else is there?” - George S. Patton
Power went out for awhile tonight.
1. I know where our candles are
2. I know we are short on D batteries
3. I know I am glad we have a gas stove and a BBQ
4. I know the TV is not a necessary part of my daughter's evening
5. I know it was very easy to turn down the volume while practicing my electric bass
rlw
Saturday, July 2, 2011
SUNRISE - July 2, 2011
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| July 2, 2011 Sunrise 5:46 am |
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” - Dalai Lama
"Don't count the days, make the days count." - Muhammad Ali
Monday, June 27, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
SUNRISE - June 18, 2011
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| June 18, 2011 Sunrise 5:41 am Inside the Venetian in Las Vegas |
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” - Epicurus
Am experiencing pre-show concerns. Playing at open-mic night in a few hours...no more practice today will make me any better than I am...hoping it is good enough.
I think I am a tiny bit better than when I started my final practice...so, off we go. Will post clip if passable.
I only need 1,000 more hours of practice to calm down some. Have four songs down (mostly). Will start working on the next new ones tomorrow if I get through tonight satisfactorily. Love the new song.
rlw
Monday, June 13, 2011
SUNRISE - June 13, 2011
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| June 13, 2011 Sunrise 5:41 am Welton Garden |
"Do not wait; the TIME will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - Napoleon Hill
A new landmark in my life of epic proportions:
Lise and I have started playing music together!
We are learning to play "House of the Rising Sun" as a duo. I am on electric bass and Lise is on violin. It sounds pretty darned good. I have an Internet metronome turned up to help me stay on the beat as my part calls for just one note per measure and I jump in too soon sometimes.
Very, very cool. Sarah is learning guitar, so when she has her chords down - we will make it a trio.
In a few minutes I will be off to a 2 hour seat in the front row at the dentist office - oh joy. The only person in the universe that probably won't help me bemoan my fate is my brother-n-law Peter who is enduring ten times that with his own dental issues.
Note to self: send salt-water Taffy (they live on a boat in S.F. Bay half the time) to him as a get-well gift. If his jaw isn't wired shut - he just may crack a little smile.
rlw
Sunday, June 12, 2011
SUNRISE - June 12, 2011
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| June 12, 2011 Sunrise 5:41 am Welton Backyard |
"Self Discipline: You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years". - Jim Rohn
Have been reading "Eat That Frog" 21 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less TIME". I figure it was definitely written for me. Probably designed for those leaping up the corporate ladder, but works equally well for those that are divesting the accumulations of a life filled with fervent acquisition while now enthusiastically moving, unhampered by 'things', towards the light at the end of the Zen rainbow.
The book is designed after the observation by Mark Twain, that if the first thing you had to do each morning was eat a live frog, you could go through the rest of your day with the satisfaction of knowing that it probably was the worst things that was going to happen to you all day long. Encourages do the most important task first.
Day one worked well for me - very satisfying ending to the day yesterday.
rlw
Saturday, June 11, 2011
SUNRISE - June 11, 2011
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| June 11, 2011 Sunrise 5:41 am |
"Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do, when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them." - Zig Ziglar
Thursday, June 9, 2011
SUNRISE - June 9, 2011
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| June 9, 2011 Sunrise 5:41 am |
White Rabbit / Jefferson Airplane officially in the books and ready for debut next Saturday at open mike night - Working on One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer/George Thorogood now and Maria-Maria/Carlos Santana is coming up next.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
SUNRISE - June 7, 2011
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| June 7, 2011 Sunrise 5:41 am |
Happy is the man who finds wisdom and understanding for the gain from it is better than gain from silver and profit better than
gold.
gold.
- Proverbs 3:13,14
Monday, June 6, 2011
SUNRISE - June 6, 2011
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| June 6, 2011 Sunrise 5:42 am |
"Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things." ~ Dale Carnegie
Sunday, June 5, 2011
SUNRISE - June 5, 2011
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| June 5, 2011 Sunrise 5:43 am |
“If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.”
~ Dale Carnegie
Friday, June 3, 2011
SUNRISE - June 3, 2011
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| Jun 3, 2011 - Sunrise 5:42 am |
“God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.” Bill Watterson
“There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.” ~Mignon McLaughlin
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
SUNRISE - May 31, 2011
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| May 31, 2011 Sunrise 5:43 am |
"There are many inequities in the world, but one thing we all have in common is the same amount of time each day. God has allotted twenty-four hours to each one of us. Perhaps, because we are products of our fast-paced society, we tend to think and act as though God has short changed us when it comes to time. It is not uncommon to hear comments like, “There just isn’t enough time in a day to do everything I need to do.” “I just don’t know where the time goes.” “I’ll try to find time, but I’m hard pressed for time at the present.” In our day when many people meet themselves coming and going, most people feel pushed for time. The feeling is that there simply aren’t enough hours in a day. Life with all its demands is far too busy.
We fill our conversations with phrases which convey the rush of our modern times. Along with the statements just mentioned, we speak of the peak or rush hour of the day, or we tell family members to get a move on because we don’t have all day. We regularly use words like urgent, priority, or pressing. There was a time when we viewed telegrams as adequate for sending vital information. But today, not only do we have the telephone, fax, email, and the Internet, but we have priority mail, even next-day delivery so we can send an important document or package the very next day thousands of miles away.
With all our modern conveniences and technological advances we should have more leisure time than any period in history, but the opposite is really the case. For most people it’s run, run, run, go, go, go, and so much so most people seem to be out of breath."
- J. Hampton Keathley
Sunday, May 29, 2011
SUNRISE -May 29, 2011
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| May 29, 2011 Sunrise 5:44 am |
“There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.” ~Mignon McLaughlin
Thursday, May 26, 2011
SUNRISE - May 26, 2011
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| May 26, 2011 Sunrise 5:46 am |
"One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right."
— Tove Jansson
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
SUNRISE - May 25, 2011
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| May 25, 2011 Sunrise 5:48 am |
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
Monday, May 23, 2011
SUNRISE - May 23, 2011
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| May 23, 2011 Sunrise 5:48 a.m. |
"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." — Charles Bukowski
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
SUNRISE - May 18, 2011
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| Sarah on Cello |
Another Day in Paradise Band - Smoke on the Water 5-14-11
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| May 18, 2011 Sunrise 5:53 am |
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