Never to Late to Learn to Play Music

We now know that it's never to late to learn to play a musical instrument. In these modern times of 24/7 information, and YouTube. com instruction, there remains no more excuses. Start online and move to private instruction, but start. Pick an instrument and start. Ignore the reaction of others. Ignore your "i-can't-ness", grow your "I can" into "I will" into "I am". It will transform your consciousness of music from the audience to the stage, and enhance one of the greatest passions of your life.. music. Take the time, find the time. Don't go to the grave only a mere spectator. Even if you only learn one song, and only play it in private, the benefits to you will be great. Music is for everyone, not just the select few. Fall in love with it on a whole new level. Get your hands and feet involved, and feel the power it can bring to you, your world, your mind, your body. Nothing can enhance your life, brain, emotions, and sense of well being like the creative process. You CAN do it!
Yes YOU! ;-)

Have Hope in Ideas, not in Washington

All recent proposals and long term plans from both parties won't work. Why? Because the very nature of "work" itself has changed and commerce and communication and and and.. The elephant in the room is the obsolescence that technology has brought and the affect on the human work force. Name one aspect of life on earth that digital technology has not affected. We need less people to do more things, yet their are more people who need jobs. The world is changing and Washington isn't. Their will be another depression if we don't have a massive retraining and a mass refocusing on our current reality. The new job sector could easily be sustainability and energy programs that fix our problems all while mounting new business models and upgrading the country at the same time. What's happening is not Washington's fault, it's just the reality. We as a people have to change, Washington can't change fast enough and won't. We have to upgrade our infrastructure and power grid and this can all be done without Washington. We're paying more taxes for less services and war is the only way to keep the death merchants solvent. It's a bad situation. Neither Bush nor Obama have created these problems and this change in our world. Every industry is affected by the changes brought on by digital technology. The finger pointing toward Washington is misguided. Technocracy and solution- based ideas are out there and will emerge in the near future or we'll perish or collapse into civil war and abject poverty, an oligarchy. New solution-based thinking must emerge and new business models as a result. This can and will happen. My hope is in ideas, not in Washington.