Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Unplugged March 31st

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Heavily inspired by Paul Newman's fund raising for non-profit organizations Noel Paul Stookey from Peter Paul And Mary has just released a new collection of songs that will raise funds for several organizations. Each song has a different non-profit. Just Causes is out now. 11am post


The season finale of Tyler Perry's Sistas is here and we're talking to the guys who help bring the drama, love and spirit. Devale Ellis and Trinity Whiteside. 1pm post


Ruta Lee is Hollywood. Wait til you read her book Consider Your Ass Kissed. She's always upbeat and very fun. 4pm post


Then we're Playing It Forward with Dr. Jennifer Ashton from Good Morning America. Because I'm a daily writer I can go back to any moment and relive the journey through Covid. Wait until you hear how she not only kept the same pages but the very notes from the huge amount of meetings she attended. Her new book is titled The New Normal: A Roadmap to Resilience in the Pandemic Era. 7pm post.

Challenged By Challenge

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March 31, 2021

For some extremely odd reason I’ve been challenged by the word challenge.  While handwriting in the daily journal the word challenge didn’t look right.  It bothered me deeply.  I grabbed the dictionary.  I looked up challenge!  My writing instrument is disconnected from Spell Check.  Words move through me at the speed of light.  Until one of them doesn’t look right.  How is this possible?  Over the past 50 plus weeks the word challenge must have been handwritten 400,000 times.  Yet today, challenge became my challenge.  I did some research.  It’s called Semantic Satiation. It’s psychological.  When the mind temporarily loses its connection.  Some people call it Wordnesia.  Semantic Satiation can also affect our verbal abilities.  Have you ever stopped yourself in midsentence and wondered why you chose those particular words?  Learning to live with Semantic Satiation requires awareness.  Don’t just let a misspelled word sit there.  Do something to correct the situation.  Has Spell Check made us lazy writers?  I love its strength on the laptop.  Feel like Indiana Jones while in a journal.  The search is on! Did I spell challenge correctly?  Here’s the reason why it’s so important.  One day these daily writings will be viewed by other eyes.  Dear Future Reader.  I gave it my best.  Thank you Mr. Dictionary.  What truly scares me more than Semantic Satiation is how we’ve accepted bad spelling on social media.  Especially on Media websites.  Nobody can afford a human professional editor.  We’re relying on the computer.  So many daily posts from the rich and famous to Johnny and Wilma Regular Robinson throw down their thoughts without rereading.  Oh!  And the Automatic Correct on FaceBook, your texting device and anything else with a tech brain changes everything.  Not just the spelling of the words but sometimes an entire thought.  Challenged by the word challenge.  One look at my writing from this morning and you might see why.  How I write says I should’ve been a doctor.       


Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut March 30th

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Describing the music of Early Times And The High Rollers can be done in two words: Total experience. Once you start no other songs will be required. 11am post


Millions know Tommy Miles from The Steve Harvey Morning Show. Tommy's also playing around on Oprah's OWN. Ready To Love is a new age reality of relationship. 1pm post


Discovery+ knows how to lock in on the most creative shows. When you first hear about Pig Royalty its a WHAT? Moment. Who would binge watch a television series about pig competitions? You're gonna get hooked. 4pm post with the greatest pig champs of all time Michelle and McKenzie Balero. 4pm post


Then we're Playing It Forward with the most admired and loved men on the planet. And yes I had to bring up K-Tel records to find out the truth. Why were those collections of songs so dang important to the industry of music? 7pm post

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 241

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March 30, 2021

There’s tremendous positive energy in a forest long before the sun elects to arrive.  A frozen morning sky that’s barely lit by a sliver of the moon provides a bass beat for the constantly hooting owls.  It’s as if they’re the tour guide.  Taking note of your Now.  Mindful of the presence of where you are.  On this particular writing day it was December where the forest floor was brittle from the cold.  Listening.  Only to ask the you, “What if many more of us did this?  To arrive before the rays of light.  To listen.  More than ever so many are bogged down by the effects of a normal life returning.  The grip on our hearts strangles the dreams once held.  Other people’s expectations are higher than the way it once was because fewer people are showing up with loyalty and dedication.  Fight or flight?  We can no longer say, “Everyday feels the same.”  No!  Have you ever been a school teacher?  Have you ever walked the path of medicine?  Have you ever stood at the register at a grocery store and let items slide by?  Waiting for the sun to rise.  Waiting.  In the hours before it arrives the temperature is always the coldest.  Is that how you feel about your present moment?  The forest isn’t the only natural creation on a planet overtaken by a pandemic.  You are a source as well.  You are a gift.  A seed.  A seeker of light.  The single blade of grass that reaches toward the sunlight.  The future barer of fruit.  The page in a story that creates a continuation.  Listening. A frozen morning sky that’s barely lit by a sliver of the moon provides a bass beat for the constantly hooting owls.  It’s as if they’re the tour guide.  What if the sun didn’t rise today?  How dark will your midnight become?  Be the light.  Believe so that others will too.


Monday, March 29, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut March 29th

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Heavy Metal Christian music? Images of Eden has carved out their own path in a way to Thrashers and Metal heads can appreciate. Steve and Gordon unmask the the identity of their true source of power. 11am post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44096641 It's Monday! That means another Pod Crashing. Introducing you to hot new podcasts. Actor Joe Pantoliano and his daughter Dani host No Kidding. Me Too. 1pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44098952 Mandi Thomas started singing at a young age and has been classically trained since she was 11. She continued her musical studies in college and began teaching vocal lessons after graduation. Mandi has dedicated herself to teaching and has put her own music career on the backburner due to struggles with self-confidence. Breaking that silent spot meant being part of Season 18 of NBC's The Voice. 4pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44099286 Then we're Playing It Forward with episode 222 I Got The Shot. I had the recorders working while stepping up to the needle. 7pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44103326

Stream Thinking: Cancer Culture

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March 29, 2021

The life of a daily writer.  If you could only see the words on the page.  If you could sit through the moments required to move those words from the universe right into your eyes.  A lifelong journey that shouldn’t scare you from trying.  The day to day experiences are how you tap into collaboration of me myself and I with the disciplined agreement to not make it about us but rather you.  The exchange is mind blowing.  Like songwriters.  I’m amazed at how something they happened to be inspired by becomes the hook that we constantly sing.  An exercise I do every day is something I call Stream Thinking.  Free Form Writing.  Give yourself only ten minutes to write anything.  To open your limitations without trapping it within the avenues of expectation.  Challenge your creative self to show up and it will.  It needs to be held accountable for its presence in your life.  My Stream Thinking exercise yesterday put the creative mind face to face with this cancel culture society we’ve accepted.  Except I call it cancer culture.  It’s poisoned us and will continue to erase from our shaping why we took form.  I didn’t start daily writing until July 1994.  I was thirty two.  That’s a lot of chapters and experiences that weren’t written about.  Those risqué early teen years leading into a teen marriage.  It was illegal for us to get married in Montana so we ran away to Wyoming.  She ripped up the wedding license two hours after saying “I do.”  If I only had a writing instrument then.  But because I’m remembering it means I’ve probably rewritten my history.  Cancel culture.  Repositioned it in a way that allows myself to forgive the moment.  Hey wait!  The marriage wasn’t over!  I was blessed with twelve years with this incredible person.  Would I have written that sentence on February 26, 1981 at the age of 19?  Cancel culture starts with us.  In fact I heard a quote over the weekend, “The only person who can cancel culture is the one who started the situation that caused the cancel culture.”  How many middle aged men and women are like me? At 19 my teenage girl friend and I faced a decision that could’ve led to a family.  I had no voice.  I could only experience.  My only choice was to grow beyond in ways where the collaboration made better decisions.  I wish I would’ve had a writing instrument when my face was buried in that pillow and the stepfather figure sat next to me asking what he could do.  The only real time I felt like I had a Dad.  Until this moment I’ve cancel cultured the situation because the history of it all has been too weighty.  I don’t daily write to live in the past.  I study the path.  It removes the cancer culture.   


Friday, March 26, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut March 26th

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You can love Rock or you can live Rock. Rock that's all about thumping those speakers and earbuds. The Jeffrey Carlson Band is on the front line of healing Rock's missing place in modern history. 11am post.


Ryan Jay is back with more reviews. Three new flicks are ready to stick to your memory like melted gum on a hot summer's day. Up first is "Nobody" which is in theaters only. Violent, bloody, fighting, fast cars and Ryan loved it. If staying away from theaters is your think Netflix has two new features this weekend. Wait. One. Cuz Ryan clearly states every reason why you should stay away from the musical "A Week Away." So that gives us "Bad Trip" Ryan Jay's review is fun as well as flawlessly unique in the way of blending prank videos into a storyline. 1pm post


Tyler Perry's Sistas on BET has become that show. That one show that pulls you straight into its soul because you can't help but see yourself in layout of the story. KJ Smith and Novi Brown talk about the grand season finale. 4pm post


Then we're Playing It Forward with Joy Bauer from NBC's Today Show. Tips for staying upbeat while pandemic stress is high from isolation and other issues we are struggling.
What isolation has done to our lifestyles and health, and tips to improve our routines. How to combat loneliness and unique ways to stay in contact with loved ones. How to get your day off to a great start whether you’re working from home or dealing with pandemic commuting. 7pm post

Nobody Else

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March 26, 2021

Here’s the best way to instantly get pushed away from a circle of collected people, “Do you ever listen to what you’re saying while praying?”  No seriously!  Do you ever participate with the physical action of listening to what you’re putting out there? I write my daily prayer.  I need to know what was moving through the moment.  Therefore it becomes a tool for another day and time.  We all do it differently.  You might not even call it the P word.  But through that P word a single sentence was placed in the heart.  I challenge you to read it seven times before moving forward.  There’s more to this single thought then a quick glance.  I wrote or prayed, “No sentence can become a paragraph without the participation of single words.”  What?  In all things you do.  In all that you’ve become.  You are a single word aiming to generate just enough energy to create a sentence that will shape a paragraph.  The physical act of creating a single sentence either generates the existence of connection or puts us as individuals in a place of question.  Who?  What? Where? When? Why?  Without a plow to turn that soil, the only thing we hold is wonder.  So often too many of us feel disgruntled by the dull of ache of being left behind.  Mastering the art of building a sentence with single words formulates a process of forward motion.  An active process.  In this world of we want it now there needs to be a button that turns off your curious ambition.  Victory requires laps around the track.  As a 3rd degree black belt the process of travel put me mentally in places that weren’t being taught in class.  The first black belt was because I feared due 100% to September 11th.  The 2nd degree showed me a better path toward teaching therefore I needed to learn more about the spiritual flow of the universe.  The 3rd degree has been the most inspirational because it’s opened my eyes and heart, the path, the walk, the way, to trusting the moment of Now. It has nothing to do with brick breaks, tournaments, forms or blocking.  The deeper you participate your personal presentation the more meaningful the day becomes.  No sentence can become a paragraph without the participation of single words.  In all that you do in your present place of change and growth what tools are you using to succeed that were gifted to your journey years ago?  Without those single words would you have the strength to be present today?  Now erase your ego and read the question again.  I realize in all things you are great but it didn’t just happen.  No sentence can become a paragraph without the participation of single words.


Thursday, March 25, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut March 25th

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Shep Rose is best known for being part of the cast on Bravo's Southern Charm. You know his personality it's all out average expectations. Which happens to be the name of his debut book.
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Did you know there's still one Blockbuster Video on the planet? It's in Bend Oregon. The documentary is currently on Netflix. We're talkin with Sandi the stores manager. 1pm post


Very few bands can have incredible greatest hits collections and the members of the band have their own greatest hits albums. Gerry Buckley of America is part of this rare circle. 4pm post


Then we're Playing It Forward with Shelby from MTV's 16 and Pregnant. Being a mom that early in life then teamed up with the Covid 19 pandemic and more. 7pm post

Finding Your Way

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March 25, 2021

Heavy subject.  Probably because I’m spending time with Joy Bauer from NBC’s Today Show. The subject is pretty much what most people don’t want to talk about.  Not unless they’re standing in front of a mirror or sending off secret text messages to an extremely close friend.  Learning how to be mentally measured without feeling like you’ve lost hope in the self you are.  You aren’t alone in this.  Mentally aware of the ability while using its strength to keep doubt, fear and shame at bay.  As a collected group of daily travelers, we might have an idea of where we once stood or how we dreamt but through the energy of experience there’s no physical way of getting back to the un-tame innocent self that felt comfortable in the purpose and plan of a world that never saw itself as normal.  Not until it was no longer normal. Learning how to be mentally measured without feeling like you’ve lost hope in the self you are.  I’m deeply inspired by the Mars Rover Perseverance.  It’s slowly and steadily studying the red planet for the potential of there being evidence of a past life.  Whereas on earth, we’re endlessly running in circles trying to regain our life.  It only required three blinks of the human eye to get from March 2020 to March 2021.  Which is sad.  With the new variants there are 16 states seeing a rise in Covid sickness.  I’ve started hearing people say, “It’s ok.  2022 is going to be a better year.”  Really?  Learning how to be mentally measured without feeling like you’ve lost hope in the self you are.  You wanted to get back to normal and it looks like normal is picking up right where it left off.  Atlanta. Boulder Colorado.  North Korea shooting two missiles into the sky.  All while Perseverance is slowly and steadily moving across Mars.  Slowly.  Steadily.  If it required only three blinks of the human eye to get from 2020 to 2021, how many will it take to shrug off 2023 and 2024 and call 2025 the best year ever?  Learning how to be mentally measured without feeling like you’ve lost hope in the self you are.   


Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut March 23rd

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If you don't know the name Cleo Wade you will. Her messages of hope and change have inspired millions to look into newer areas of community growth. Her new book What The Road Said looks and feels like a children's book. Then you turn to the first page. Boom!
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Rock guitarist Richie Kotzen is best known for his journey through music with Winery Dogs and Mr. Big. His latest collaboration is with Adrian Smith from Iron Maiden. 1pm post


It wasn't until Ben Allen turned 31 that he performed at an open mic on a whim and loved every second of it. He formed a duo and later his own five-piece band. It's one of the biggest bands in southwest Florida. It helped open the door for him to be part of season 19 of NBC's Voice. 4pm post


Then we're Playing It Forward with Dr. Steven Phillips and singer/songwriter Dana Parish. Together they've written and published the book Chronic. Dealing with chronic pain that you know exists but no doctor on the planet can fix it. This guy can. 7pm post.