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Locating the space to allow time to stop racing requires a relationship...

January 2, 2023

The goal isn’t to push. But to trust the moment. To see the expectation and not the personal determination. How much are we missing out on during those wild ideas of being dedicated to an opportunity that may never have a payoff? I’m extremely guilty of saying, “Yes I did.” Often accused by others, “What haven’t you done?” I’ve not mastered any of them. Bruce Lee was no different. His skills as a martial artist inspired the world. He was never a student that earned the highest recognition by the Masters who’ve been trained to be leaders of their life and style by way of lessons learned thousands of years ago. What are you missing out on?  By doing it all… Am I using it as a cover up?  What am I hiding?

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 532 With Billiards Champion Jeanette Lee From ESPN’s 30 For 30

ESPN introduces the next installment in the Peabody and Emmy award-winning 30 for 30 series, Jeanette Lee Vs. on December 13 on ESPN and streaming on ESPN+. The documentary recounts the rise of Jeanette Lee, the billiards player nicknamed “The Black Widow,” who at her peak became, improbably, one of the most recognizable figures in sports.

I’m C.T. When I’m not hosting podcasts I’m in the real world. Everybody has to work. My job is C.S. Customer Service. Solutions, relationships and generating motivation to keep my team pumped and connected to every guest who chose to stop in to pick up a few things or large baskets with everything.

This is C.T.C.S.

Episode 64 Reality Between The Holidays

Pod Crashing Episode 183 With Georgia Durante From Wheel Woman

Georgia Durante has packed a lifetime of lessons into her years. Those who have known her for the past twenty years as one of Hollywood's most successful female commercial stunt drivers have been shocked by the truth of her past.

Hollywood producers have known two Georgia Durantes: the steely-nerved stuntwoman with the skill to handle a three-ton high-performance vehicle in high-speed precision maneuvers; and the beautiful model and actress who, at seventeen, was considered the most photographed girl in the country.

They knew only those sides of Georgia Durante because that was all she chose to reveal. Only now does she share the full story of her life.

Compelling and terrifying, Wheel Woman tells the true story of Georgia Durantes storybook beginnings in Upstate, New York when at the tender age of twelve, the radiant little girl began her national modeling career. At seventeen, Georgia Durante became the "Kodak Girl" immortalized with her life-size image displayed in more than 80,000 retail stores throughout the world.

I did something my wildest dreams would've never pictured.  Collaborating on the same live stage with my granddaughter.  Growing up, we always saw grandparents as old.  There was nothing planted in my soul as a child that gave me the inspiration of wanting to one day be a grandparent.  But when it arrived.  I had never felt anything so brilliant.  It's time to start being more open with how being a grandparent is a beautiful place.  Not those people your parents see especially on holidays.  

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But who?

Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or anything else), Mac has been raised by his mom and grandad to call out things that are wrong. He and his friends head to the principal's office to protest the censorship... but her response doesn't take them seriously. So many adults want Mac to keep his words to himself. Mac's about to see the power of letting them out.

Amy Sarig King writes this story from real life experience. Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic was censored in her local elementary school in the exact way as it’s described in her novel. After buying an uncensored copy at her local independent bookstore, she went to the principal to fix the problem, but was shrugged off as if she were silly to think that censorship is wrong.

The Attack of the Black Rectangles takes on censorship and intolerance, two issues of importance to King, as she cautions in her author’s note:

Now… school districts all over the country are seeing a massive rise in book bans—where just a few citizens are removing many books from shelves in a call to “protect” you from the truth . . . when taking away stories of people different from you, or stories where you might be able to see yourself and your family, or, really, any stories, is the opposite of protection. I want you to care about intellectual freedom— which is the right to read.

Change in plans...  During the birth of this new year find focus on what you know and learn to grow with it...

There are too many distractions.  A simple thought is constantly lost.  That one moment that might have been the ice breaker.  I find amazing peace sitting in the warmth of silence.  Sadly, the voices in my head and heart get louder.  They all want to be heard.  They want physical evidence of their existence.  We know of the importance of the eye of a needle yet we don't seem to find the same energy in the tip of a writing instrument.  What will make it to the page and why?  Learning to trust the mental behaviors of a creative mind is an endless task.  Accepting evolution.  It allows the spirit of movement to find its voice.  I will not become a tiger or monkey during this lifetime.  But mentally and spiritually we are what they make of us.  But are we listening? This is why I write.  Sounds saved for later use. 

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 531 With Greg Patnode From Desert Dragon

Desert Dragon has released their new album, This Side of Heaven on all digital and retail platforms. The band’s first release with vocalist Keith St. John. Making up the rest of the band is Greg Patnode and Brent Barker on guitar, Rick Brandt on bass, Lenny Roberto on drums, and Michael Smith on keyboards. “We decided to go a little heavier on this album to get a little more energy,” says Patnode.