For the past several years, Dean Haglund, Phil Leirness, and Jon Lawlor have been getting together almost weekly to hold each other’s feet to the fire in the pursuit of creating art that is filled with life, while also learning how to live more artfully. Now, Chillpak Hollywood Presents … “The Art Life” as a regular podcast!

Of late, the gentlemen have been ruminating on what should be in a modern, arts-focused “Declaration of Independence” (a manifesto, if you will). Some new ideas concerning this occur to them during this week’s discussion.

Other topics include …

*The struggle to adjust to Daylight Saving Time

*The classic Canadian film Why Shoot the Teacher and the indelible images of the Great Depression

*This Friday the 13th of March vs. the last one, and what the pandemic should have taught us about planning and about purpose

*Whether it be war, or business, or the current World Baseball Classic, the shocking lack of leadership on display at present in the USA

*Why everyone needs to see WarGames

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