Inspired by the Right People

Tasty food and great company with Wakako and Frido at the King's Highway at the Ace Hotel

When Liam and I started redesigning our life, we knew we weren’t following a traditional path. The interesting thing was that as we started getting serious about change, inspiring people seemed to walk into our lives on cue.

These weren’t the live-in-a-fantasy-land types… you know the kind, all daydreaming and no practicality. Fanciful notions are nice, but to make things happen, it takes a specific attitude, and, as we learned, the support of very special people… the “right people.”

These are the ones who both embrace ideas and inspire solutions to the challenges that come with them. These are the people with vision… or at least the capacity to envision an unconventional future. These are the people who motivate us to take a closer look at our plans. They promote action without it feeling like work.

Over the weekend, we were visited by our friends Frido and Wakako. They are among the “right people.” There is such a buzz being around friends who can listen to an idea and their natural instinct is to be inquisitive rather than practical. They don’t kill the creative process. They understand that great ideas just need time to steep.

And best of all, they share their ambitions. Talking with them sets off a chain-reaction. Gotta love that. A big giant, digital kiss to Wakako, Frido and all the “right people” in our lives!

Hitting the Road Again

Our month in Palm Springs has come to an end. Tomorrow we head for Phoenix where we have to get things lined up with the Arizona Tax Office in preparation for our upcoming shows… Arizona has a more tedious process than California.

I must confess, I’d really like another week or ten days in Palm Springs. I think we’d be very productive in that time. That said, we just went over the books and shows in California paid off. Our expenses for the trip have been covered, so during our next three shows, we should be “making” money.

Whew! We took a risk heading out here and so far it’s paying off.

This Sunday we skipped the College of the Desert Street Fair in favor of our RV park’s Super Swap Meet. In the end, we made more money selling to our neighbors than we did to the Sunday crowd at College of the Desert… another risk that paid off.