Chase The Kangaroo

The Way We Work  “Beware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way simply because it’s the way you’ve done it before.”  ~Rick Rubin, from his book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

 “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” ~ C.S. Lewis

" You can be rich by having more than you need, or by needing less than you have. " ~Jim Mott

" No man ever became wise by chance. "  ~Seneca

" He who gains time gains everything. " ~Benjamin Disraeli

" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. " ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All men dream, but not equally." ~T.E. Lawrence

" There are only two kinds of people in the end; those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done. '" ~C.S. Lewis

" However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. " ~Winston Churchill

" We must get to the end of ourselves before He can begin in us. " ~F. B. Meyer

" Great leaders produce other leaders. " ~John C. Maxwell

" Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. " ~Vince Lombardi

"One man with God is always in the majority." ~Inscription on the Reformation Monument in Geneva

Seventy Sevens  ~The 77's | Then and Now "The 77's will take you on a journey through the past, present, and future of rock & roll" ~ Island Records radio advertisement, 1987 Unfortunately for the 77's, this album was released the same year and on the same label as  U2's,  The Joshua Tree .  This is unfortunate because Island Records had become completely absorbed with the release of  The Joshua Tree  and had little resources for anything else. Another harsh reality was that, as Larry Norman put it, the Christian music industry had no idea how to deal with the 77's. "The 77's - Too Christian for the radio and too radio for Christian music. " ~Larry Norman Though the album received favorable reviews from Rolling Stone and their single, "The Lust, The Flesh, The Eyes and The Pride of Life" became a commercial success, radio stations didn't know what to do with these "Christians".  And in the days where y...

" We should be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it. " ~Mark Twain

How C.S. Lewis Helped Encourage Tolkien’s ‘LORD OF THE RINGS’ By Alicia Kort,  Newsweek  | Repost In the 20th century, two British authors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, dominated the world’s imagination with their original works, which have been translated into more than 39 languages, printed in more than 300 million copies and were optioned into films earning more than $6.4 billion combined at the global box office. While the individual talent of these authors is undeniable to readers today, many may have no inkling that Tolkien and Lewis enjoyed an unshakable friendship—a relationship directly responsible for the creation of  The Lord of the Rings  and Lewis’s  Chronicles of Narnia . A year after Tolkien began teaching at Merton College at Oxford University, he met fellow professor Lewis at a faculty meeting in 1926. But it wasn’t necessarily friendship-at-first-sight. In his diary, Lewis describes Tolkien as “ a smooth, pale fluent little chap—no ha...

" As puppets are to men and dolls to children, so is man's workmanship to God's. " ~William Penn

Editor's Note: I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it.  The lyrics are unmistakably Mark Heard.  The catch is I heard the song for the first time, on a Mark Heard tribute album.  The album was primarily put together by the founding members of the band, The Choir.  Below the lyrics you'll their version of the song on Spotify. "Tip of My Tongue" |   Satellite Sky  ~Mark Heard There's an oasis in the heat of the day  There's a fire in the chill of night  A turnabout in circumstance makes each a hell in its own right I've been boxed-in in the lowlands, in the canyons that think  I've been pushed to the brink of the precipice and dared not to blink  I've been confounded in the whirlwind of what-ifs and dreams  I've been burned by the turning of the wind back upon my own flames Knock the scales from my eyes  Knock the words from my lungs  I want to cry out  It's on the tip of my tongue I've see...

gratitude Definition of the state of being grateful : thankfulness : expressed gratitude for their support " Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. " ~John Milton " Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. " ~Zig Ziglar grateful Definition of... a : appreciative of benefits received b : expressing gratitude grateful thanks a : affording pleasure or contentment : pleasing b : pleasing by reason of comfort supplied or discomfort alleviated " Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. " ~Joseph B. Wirthlin " Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is sel...

"If The Number One Song Is About Your Butt, That's A Problem"  ~The Red Bulletin | Repost WORDS: MARCEL ANDERS PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID CLERIHEW AFTER THREE DECADES OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL, DAVE GROHL JUST WON’T QUIT, MAKING MOVIES AND TV, COLLABORATING WITH MUSIC LEGENDS, INTERVIEWING UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS. AND ALWAYS PUSHING BUTTONS. “I’M SURE THAT BY SOME OTHER PEOPLE’S STANDARDS WHAT I DO IS GARBAGE,” HE SAYS. “BUT SCREW THEM.” Dave Grohl became world famous in the 1990s as the drummer for Nirvana and has remained stellar ever since. He’s the lead singer of Foo Fighters (eight albums, 11 million copies sold, tons of awards and huge world tours) and has worked on musical projects with David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age, among others. Last year he produced his first film, Sound City, a documentary about the titular Los Angeles music studio. Now he’s driving Sonic Highways, an ambitious project merging the latest Foo Fighters album,...