Thankful

With my mind spinning like a top over the past couple of weeks, I am slowing my thought process today and considering all that I am thankful for. The year of 2005 has been a monumental year in my life. Perhaps the most monumental. As we take a bit of time to relax over the holiday, here is a list of the important things that I have come to appreciate.

* A healthy daughter who lights up my life on a consistent basis. Sophia is an amazing young girl, and I am thankful that she is surrounded by peace, love and joy on a consistent basis.

* A prosperous career. Prosperity comes in more ways than just income. To be able to enjoy going to your work place, and loving all of the people you work with is a treasure. I can honestly say that I have these things.

* The mystery of life and timing. This has everything to do with a beautiful lady in El Paso, TX who has in a very short time shown me that my heart can be stolen and won.

* Health.

* Friends. To be surrounded by people who love me, accept me depsite my failures and humanity, and are there for me no matter what is worth more than any monetary gain.

* Family. Spread across the land is the collective consciousness called "family." We brush with mortality and face the process of form and reality as we walk through these times. There are family things that are woven into us that we like, and some we don't like. Yet, it is who we are.

I wish everyone a great holiday. Breathe easy the time and it's essence. Be peaceful knowing that NOW is the best and only time there is.

OH YEAH! AND, I AM THANKFUL THAT PAUL WALL HAS GONE PLATINUM!

Good Day!

The couple of persons inside

Our ego. We all have one. Despite our culture's general idea that the ego is just our attitude, pride, or cockiness, the ego is actually much much more. Think of the ego as a split personality, which is a part of our total personality. It's not moving out, God's not going to take it away. The ego is a permanent resident of your life.

With that being said, my ego has been doing a number on me as of late. On one side, the ego tells me I am not good enough, and on the other it tells me to live with wreckless abandon. The ego's sole purpose with all of us is simple: To keep us from ourselves. As long as the ego is active and we aren't paying attention, the ego wins.

This situation basically reflects most of society. We are walking zombies projecting personalities that have nothing to do with who we actually are. Layer upon layer of assumptions, lies, fear and just outright non-reality have masked ourselves to the world where we are almost on a permanent trick or treat ride with our lives.

Who are we? More importantly, who are you? What is that part of you that is beyond form, beyond the noise in your brain, beyond the storyline you tell yourself every moring about who you think you should be?

Are you living right now? Are you even in attendance of your life at this present moment, or is your mind taking you on a ride in a future that doesn't exist, based on a past that is gone as well.

Consider the people and places that surround you. Consider that this very moment, second, millisecond is all that you got. Are you here?

Happy Thanksgiving.

Scott

Welcome Back.....

Another hurricane, brushes with mortality, crashed computers, upswings at work, wanting to not think about things, etc, etc, etc.....................................

I have popped the hood on the blog and jumped the battery. As summer finally gave up it's ghost in Tennessee by loosening our trees from their leaves, I am breathing easier and more peaceful than during the blast furnace days of the past several months.

To all of the people who live around me in separate, yet very connected lives, I would like to offer up well wishes to everyone. I haven't really said much to anyone over the past months. If this has pushed anyone away, I am sorry; it is nothing personal.

Here are a few highlights of what's going on with me.

* I am happier and more peaceful than I have ever been. My heart is bursting and full of life, because I know that beauty and wonder can connect with a person like me in the most unlikely way. We really only have this moment, right now to live. It is important to breathe, love and embrace the good when it presents itself to us. We can never know what another day holds. We can only be who we are right now.

* Sophia is healthy, wealthy AND wise. Preparing for her debut in the "Nut Remix" this holiday, she is full of life and an absolute dream. Her soul is bright, and she is surrounded by peace and well-being on a constant basis.

* I still can't stand many of the ridiculous things in our world that are happening right now. But instead of wasting my breath on political rant, I will leave it to the minions who are creating these issues to bury themselves. It seems like they are doing a good job of this.

* I love my career. The people around me are awesome, our business is rolling, and our radio station is the #1 biggest station in Nashville.

* Things are good.