I’ve been looking for a copy of this documentary for years and just accidentally found it on YouTube. Emitt is the greatest rock musician you’ve never heard of. Like Badfinger and some other great musicians of the late sixties/early seventies, his career was killed by record company greed. Here is his story told by an intrepid Italian docmentarist who tracked him down…
You can learn more about him in his Wikipedia entry and you can listen to his music below. Compare this to McCartney’s solo albums in the playlist I created of McCartney and Rhodes songs from the same year and I think you’ll understand why people called him ‘One Man Beatles’.
Listen to this playlist on shuffle. Both artists were recording their own music and playing all instruments in these albums. I think it’s easy to make the case that Emitt was technically better than Paul in some of these recordings…
However, it’s interesting to know that many cultures (including my Irish ancestors) think that black cats are good luck and I choose to take that approach myself. No cat is more beautiful than my little Sadie…
I have followed both of these women for almost a decade; Tara Brach is of course one of the most respected western teacher of eastern thought and Lori Deschene is the chief creative at the site Tiny Buddha. It’s fun to listen in on their conversation.
OK. This cracks me up. I was doing a search on my name in Google and this popped up on a site I’ve never heard of. I’m so fond of quoting other people and someone actually quoted me…
“Manage your expectations and you’ll manage your disappointments.” – Todd Lohenry
The only element more important to a company’s success than client expectations is being able to manage employee expectations. In order to keep employees informed and content, a company needs to prioritize clarity, accountability, and understanding team roles. Source: Maintaining Employee Expectations – Level Up Coaching Solutions
“Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand, and ask, “Why is this so unbearable? Why can’t I endure it?” You’ll be embarrassed to answer. Then remind yourself that past and future have no power over you. Only the present—and even that can be minimized. Just mark off its limits.”
“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…” Epictetus
Ryan Holiday writes: “Marcus Aurelius did not come out of the womb a leader. Nor was he an emperor ‘by blood.’ In fact, when first told he was to be king, he wept—thinking of all the bad and failed kings of history. So how did he get from there to philosopher king? Book 1 of Meditations shows us. The first ten percent of the book—Debts and Lessons—thanks people who groomed him into one of history’s greatest leaders. He knew it—without his philosophy teachers and rhetoric teachers and, most importantly, his mentor Antoninus Pius, he wouldn’t have became who he became. In this video Ryan Holiday recounts one of the greatest stories in human history and talks about how Antoninus Pius taught Marcus Aurelius the most important virtue of all.”
Bright, shiny objects! 
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