My Wishbone Is My Backbone
The Autobiographical Philosophy
Living Holograms & The YOUniverse
My Attitude Is Still Getting Me Altitude! The journey continues through the endless skies of possibility and self-discovery.
In 1971 Schlitz Beer commercials on my B&W TV depicted adventurous men diving for gold, sailing the 7 seas. This became the foundation of my philosophy of living boldly.
Go for the gusto! ... you only go around once in life
This simple commercial slogan became a life philosophy, reminding us that our time here is precious and finite.
Note to self: The earth school kills all of its students. Life is like rowing out to sea in a boat that has a hole in the bottom. Have as much joy and fun and fulfillment - because success without fulfillment is failure. Yet doing the right thing at the wrong time equals pain - I would recommend that everyone who wanted to travel, do it immediately. Sooner rather than later. Gather no moss.
The digital convergence and celestial jukeboxes (Cell Phones, TV's, Computer Screens) are the soundtrack and sound bytes of our lives - But the content is somebody else's point of view. What is deeply personal is universal yet what gives our lives meaning and gravitas is our own Autobiography. Telling our own story is not something that we're taught how to do. If we learn how to mine our own experience, we can find answers to the great questions of life.
The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
We are unique just like everybody else - There is above all, the uniqueness of our own story. That's what gives us the sense of inhabiting our own lives. I think that the majority of people never get inside their own lives. That is the difference between living mythically (The American Dream) and living autobiographically (The YOUniverse) where your wishbone becomes your backbone.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen
Hemingway understood the profound truth about authentic storytelling and the power of imagination grounded in truth.
We are all living holograms, and can find answers to the deep questions of life simply by telling our own stories.
Our lives are shaped — and occasionally misshaped — by the stories we tell about ourselves. The Autobiographical Philosophy is the love of telling your own story! I have been using my travels as a kind of mirror, a hologram of the age I am living in.
The American psyche has always been based on glorifying the individual, but for the past few years it's been more about finding a community of people I belong with, discovering my connections with all life—human or otherwise!
I'm not a Starfleet commander, or T. J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-170... or own a phaser. I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock, but I am boldly going nowhere fast.
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