TMR: A Simple Blog - Partially About Making An Album

"It isn’t the money that makes people thrilled with their life, since we already know their day-to-day experience doesn’t change past $75,000 in terms of emotional happiness.  Rather, it is the fact they landed the CEO job or sold their company to Wall Street or signed a record deal.  The money, in these cases, is a symptom, not a cause."

"Everyone wants to be happy, but even revered thinkers have struggled with the how. The Dalai Lama said happiness comes when we practice compassion. Thomas Jefferson claimed it requires "a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." The ever-optimistic Ernest Hemingway noted that "happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know," yet the hyper-intelligent Albert Einstein had a simple prescription: "a table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin."

Back at it, I guess - kinda, sorta,...