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#SundayThoughts I got the privilege to sing for an Easter celebration last week (and I will sing on Easter as well). There were many musical performances. What I loved the most wasn't the songs or their skill, but that they were putting themselves in the performances. The songs almost felt like prayers.

I don't believe all art or performances have to be personal. But as someone who often "takes himself out" of my work, I'm trying to be better of putting myself back in them.

#SundayThoughts I found audio recordings online from my great grandpa I've never met. Love hearing his voice; he and my grandpa have a lot in common there.

In the recording, he narrated many of the miraculous experiences in his life. I also consider myself "a miracle man" (see "Signs" movie reference below), meaning I've seen miracles happen in my life and others. If my posts haven't told you, I try to maintain an optimistic and grateful outlook.

#SundayThoughts I always found the common artist question amusing: "Where do you get your ideas?"

I literally have no control over them. They just come as I'm doing other things but it has taught me that one often leads to the other, and you don't always have to have both constantly.

If you feel like you're out of the ideas, just start making something. The ideas will find you.

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Any time I hear someone say that god told them something, I know I can ignore anything else they say. I have no way to verify what happened inside their skull, so I don't have to take it seriously.

In many parts of the world it's already no longer the weekend. May as well give up enjoying myself now, and just wait
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I had to eat the pakodas to read the entire article...

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Man, the smartphone market is such a racket. Offer people a spying brick of silicon that they don't truly own, give them all sorts of addictive properties that they justify as "convenience", then stop supporting the OS within a couple years so that they either have to spend $300+ on a new phone every few years or risk both security and incompatibility.

Oh, and that's not mentioning the fact that the majority of phones don't even let you use a custom ROM (further contributing toward the lack of ownership) and unless you use something like Tracfone, you're tied to a KYCed phone subscription that makes it hard to cancel, switch or even afford.

There's a reason why I put off using a smartphone until two years ago, when I was basically forced to get one. I really wish I could go back. PCs and laptops are so much better.