Mirrors of My Mind

Sometimes I think I am the only one, until I hear a conversation I wasn’t included in voicing the same opinion. Karaoke car pool wasn’t the first to do the sing along thing. We all do it, more often than we realize while driving to work or traveling to a different destination down the freeway. If you look to your right or left determined by the lane you choose to drive, you will notice someone you don’t know listening to the same exact tune. Your lips are synced mouthing the same words to a song not more than two weeks ago, you didn’t like at all. Your choice of station doesn’t matter, I Heart Radio, Pandora your favorite local channel or some newfangled app you thought you set up uniquely. Which song is it this week? Which song are you trying to avoid but can’t get away from? It’s just like clockwork, every twenty to thirty minutes it sneaks into to your sound system. Every car with speakers louder than yours are blasting it. Each station you turn the dial to would make you believ...

G. P. (Greeting Potential) rediscovering the beauty of human interaction We live in a time where we Skype, Facetime, Go Live on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Periscope with people from countries we will never visit. We spend hours every day connecting via the internet with thousands of friends we will probably never meet. Maybe we are called Social Media Addicts for a reason. We prefer likes, follows, subscriptions and shares over face to face hello’s. It has become common place to tweet, chat, sending messages via (DM) direct message or Messenger with those we know without seeing them for weeks. We are slowly losing our ability to talk with those in our presence without having our eyes glued to the screens of our smart phones or I-pads. There is something uniquely human in connecting in person with people we know and those we just met. Especially if you are an artist or entrepreneur of any type. It is important we work on becoming more proficient in rebuilding our abil...