After being surrounded by people who make a difference in the world, I recognized a common thread – they follow their passion. I was in New Orleans for Jazz Fest, meeting amazing musicians and community activists. I was humbled. We were in NOLA to meet Youssou N’dour, Senegal’s greatest musician. He played at the Jazz […]
Month: April 2025
How To Come Alive This Spring
It’s SPRING – and our Kentucky horse farms are alive with baby foals. How can you come alive – is Spring tapping your urge to engage in something new? Despite current events with things coming undone around us, it’s more important than ever to put the focus back on yourself and think about how you would […]
Finding And Acting On Kindness Amists National Meanness
While many are reeling over the meanness of national politics affecting individuals and businesses, I’m finding kindness and helpfulness. Here is what I have noticed is being revealed. Several experiences with my son showed me something I wasn’t expecting. When car shopping, dealerships were making special deals for people to buy cars now before tariffs […]
UBUNTU – “I am because of how you are”
UBUNTU is an ancient African word that means that your sense of self is shaped by everyone around you –” I am because of how you are”. My African friends talked about this at a music event we hosted this weekend. They put an emphasis on the “How you are” aspect of the phrase, which […]
Do You Care Enough…?
It’s been an intense weekend, in trying to sum it up, the phrase “Do you care enough” came to mind. Do you care enough about yourself, do you care enough about others, do you care enough about what’s going on around you? It’s the little things that make a difference. We were attending a funeral […]