A Grammy Nomination Alert...

...proud kudos to long-time production partner and studio wingman David Sutton and his bandmates for their well-deserved Grammy nomination for their blistering 2009 album "Little Honey" by Lucinda Williams.

Horns-up in honor of his humble weave of human grace through rockin' bass chops.

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5 Years Later...

... angels Dottie & Josh hooked up two live gigs in 24 hrs.

Both felt peacefully wonderful. Yet...the life-long joy of unleashing the unbridled upon foreign spaces & faces is still counterbalanced by the lack of passion for serving up the pure to 'entertain.'

5 years later...the ambivalence of the Gig remains.

So be it...what's meant is.

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A Whisper...

...how you view the world is how you feel about your Self.

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Compassion And A World View...

According To National Geographic (which rules)...

More than a billion people in the developing world need glasses. But opticians aren’t exactly on every block in sub-Saharan Africa. In some places the ratio is one to one million residents. Pondering this problem, Oxford University physics professor Joshua Silver came up with a brilliantly simple solution: a pair of eyeglasses, currently costing about $19, that the wearer can adjust. Silicone oil is injected into a gap between two sheets of plastic until the lens provides sharp vision. The inventor’s field research shows the correction can be better than that of prefab glasses sold at a store.

As director of the new nonprofit Centre for Vision in the Developing World, Silver envisions a billion pairs on needy eyes by 2020. So far, 30,000 pairs are in use in Africa and eastern Europe, two-thirds distributed through U.S. military aid programs.

The glasses look a bit geeky, but there are few complaints. Silver recalls the first recipient, in Ghana in 1996: a tailor in his 30s whose faltering close vision made it nearly impossible to thread a needle. The tailor adjusted the glasses, threaded the needle on his machine, and began sewing rapidly. “I will not forget that moment,” says Silver, “until I entirely lose my memory.”

Will send some lovethislife to Joshua at Oxford prontomundo.

A humbling reminder that maximizing our Greatness (through the living of our implanted Gig) is our obligation...not our option.

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A Fond Farewell (And A Seed In The Field)...

...heartfelt gratitude for the 33 years of our travels along The Disconnect. Food, roof, & ripples of egoic yoga-fueled disregard & disrespect cost this heart a childhood guitar. Will never compromise the intuition ever again...especially to graceless conventional conformist humans.

Rock hard and rock free my friend.

Heartbreak seeds rebirth.

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A Girl Gets Her Wish (And A Guy Gets His Guitar)...

Remarkable communiques from remarkable lovethislifers get relayed to us every day (hence...the interest in and development of the 'lovethislife' traveling documentary).

Check out the following phone call between Lindsay (in pic) and her mom Lisa.

Lindsay: Hey mom.

Lisa: Hey Linds. I got your biopsy results.

Lindsay: And...

Lisa: You got your wish.

Lindsay: What?

Lisa: It's cancer.

Lindsay's childhood wish was to get cancer so she could save someone else from getting it. Her wish came true in the form of Stage 2 Hodgkins Lymphoma at 23.

Wishes aren't confined to shiny happy.

Lindsay is now 25...clear...and gunning it with unwavering joy.
She advises All to 'laugh lots.'

3 hours after being told this story...a stranger came over to buy a guitar I was no longer using. The boyish-faced rocker started feeling faint. I asked if he was alright to which he replied "no big deal...it's just the chemo." I shared my 3 hour-old story of Lindsay with him to which he responded with "...I knew when I was a kid that I'd get cancer. I always told my friends that I'd get it so they wouldn't have to. I took one for the team."

I jive you not.

Celebrate Synchronicity and Lessons From Fellow Humans at all times (and laugh...lots).

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lovethislife Goes To Berlin...

...stay tuned.