What is life?  What matters?  What is its meaning?

These are questions which mankind has pondered for thousands of years.  I am fortunate in that I follow a once well known philosophy called Stoicism which answers these questions.

1. Life is temporal and fleeting.  It is a moment in time and space to be savored as much as possible as it will never reoccur.
2. It is what you leave behind which matters not what you acquire.  What is your legacy?
3. The meaning of Life is Death.  You have a brief moment to do what you want, then someone else will replace you, then someone else will replace them in a never ending cycle.

Let me give you an example of two very well known people.

Donald Trump pretended to be a successful businessman, conned and hurt many people, rose to power, and became a plague upon a nation.

Jimmy Carter was an Admiral in the Navy, won the presidency, and afterward helped many people through Habitat For Humanity actually working building houses himself.

Which is the better legacy?

I have done many very bad things, some of which were illegal, but I have never consciously or deliberately hurt anyone.

I have achieved what I consider a small amount of success through three primary and one secondary avenues, one of them being Music, but enough to retire in comfort.

Two of them, Music and Live Event Production, were directly related to professional entertainment.

• I played by first paid gig in 1969 at a frat party.
• I was professionally trained in Record Production at UCLA.
• My wife, Adrienne, and myself produced dozens of live events sponsored by international corporations with our company Spellbound Creative Concepts. 

These sponsors include Daimler, Motorola, Pfizer, Union Pacific, and the World Bank International Monetary Fund.

I can document the last statement although not the first.  You can request my UCLA transcript directly from them it was in 1992.

I now make music primarily for enjoyment and I try to help other people as much as it possible for me do so.  I do not believe in Heaven or Hell so this has nothing to do with reward or punishment, only that it is the right thing for me to do.  Stoicism…

I hope to leave a small legacy of doing good for other people having become comfortable, although not wealthy, myself.  In five years we plan to move to a small non-tourist town on the Gulf of California in Mexico as I already speak some Spanish.

This is why I write here.  I make no money, I very obviously do not care what other people think of me, but I do have something to offer.  Both my wife and myself have been around professional entertainment for over 50 years.

What I write is opinion, but it is an opinion based upon personal experience.  Take it for what it is worth.  The only thing I ask is do not mistake the reason I do it.  There is nothing in this for me but the joy of sharing by writing.