The Thoughts On Life blog are my thoughts, articles, and videos of things that I find of interest.
The longer you play your instrument, in my case the ukulele, the more chances will come that there will be an important event to play and sing music at. Stepping Up My Aunt recently died. I had not seen her or my cousins for about 8 years. I found out about the memorial service and […]
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I have a website that I built for my songwriting and music a few years ago. It has been working well, but I have been getting emails from Google saying that the website has 4xx issues on some pages. I am not computer technical enough to know what that means. I ignore the emails for
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After starting the Mission Ukulele Circle in Mission, BC, a member who was a long time player, asked me to go to an ukulele educational session with Ralph Shaw in Vancouver one night, which was very enjoyable. Later he got me to go to the White Rock Ukulele Club, which met once a month, and
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2022 Covid After almost two years of covid restrictions, wearing masks and staying distant, we had weathered the worst of the covid pandemic. We did not get it in the early days when the risk of death was quite high. But as omacron made it’s appearance, we did catch it. A few days of a
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I have spent time thinking about – What is the best career for me. I did not think of it as My Most Important Decision, but in retrospect I think it is.
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The Older I Got – The Wiser Dad Seemed To Be This is my first original song release for 2022 ! This song is written for my Dad, acknowledging his efforts to try and guide me to better decisions as I a young man. Parents want their children to have a better life than they
Years ago a client said to me – “life is one big compromise.” I always thought that was an interesting saying, and I remembered it. I searched compromise in google, and one site had a few dozen quotes on the “compromise”. What surprised me was the range of feelings about it. Some have the
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2020 Year In Review This is my last post of the year, so thought I’d post – Richard’s 2020 in review. 2020 has been a year of progress, and I think my most productive music year of my life. The year ending up with 31 blog posts, releasing two albums of original material, and about
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I recently watched on TV, some of the funeral for RBG – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the supreme court justice of the US. The operatic music played I was not familiar with, because I don’t listen to operatic music. What Is Your Funeral Song ? It started me thinking, what song do I want to be
I have always felt that Adapability was a great skill to have. The ability to adapt to changing situations that come at us, as we go through life. Adaptable is defined at dictionary.com, as being able to adjust oneself readily to different conditions. Self Employed Adaptability Back in the 1970’s and 80’s I was a
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