Less Traveled Roads: Happy Birthday to me

I read a comment this week that ask, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? Tomorrow is my 32nd Birthday!

The Road Less Traveled

This poem by Robert Frost is my favorite. I have it on my office wall to remind me that my role in life is not about "going with the flow", but going where I feel led. I have been at several crossroads in my life and went directions that sent me down lanes that were not normally traveled. One crossroad was when our daughter died. One road was leaving secure corporate life to start a business with little business knowledge, and still another path led to helping start a church.
Recent paths have been led to participation in the organization of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame when I do not sing, play or compose. I am a good listener!

The motto of the architectural firm of which I am a part is:

Imagine Create Inspire

That makes all the difference!

Good Books

Deep & Wide by Andy Stanley
The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight
Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Martian by Andy Weir
David & Goliath by Malcom Gladwell
Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson
The litigators by John Grisham
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Best Advice I Ever Got by Katie Couric
John Adams by David McCullough
The Girl with the Dragon tatoo by Stieg Larsson
Crazy Love by Francis Chan
Stuff Christians Like by Jonathan Acuff
Paul McCartney, a life
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
Up Country by Nelson Demille
The Shack by William P.Young
Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Great!)
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
World Without End by Ken Follett (Great!)
Death by Suburb by David Goetz
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (3rd time)
Tipping Point & Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Third Time)

Favorite Concerts of the last few years

ACM Awards 2009, Vegas
ACM Awards 2010, Vegas
ACM/Brooks & Dunn Last Rodeo, Vegas, 2010, "Unbeleivable Show"
ACM/George Strait All Star Concert, Vegas, 2009
Alan Jackson, Tulsa 2015
Billy Joel, Tulsa 2016
Bob Seger, Dallas, 2007
Bon Jovi, Tulsa, 2010
Bonnie Raitt, Tulsa, 2005
Boston Pops with Garrison Keillor, Boston, 2008
Brad Paisley, Dallas, 2010
Brad Paisley, Frisco Tx, 2011
Brad Paisley, Tulsa, 2009 (THE Best)
Brad Paisley, Tulsa, 2010
Carole King, OKC, 2006
Celine Dion, Tulsa, 2009
Chris Stapleton, Muskogee 2015
CMA Music Festival, Nashville, 2009
Darius Rucker, Fayettville, 2009
Don Henley, OKC, 2007
Eagles, Houston 2014
Eagles, Tulsa, 2008 (2 times)
Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival, Dallas, 2005
G Fest, Muskogee, 2016
Garth Brooks, Tulsa 2015
James Taylor & Carole King, Nashville, 2010
James taylor, Bonnoe Raitt, 2019 Tulsa
Janes Taylor, Tulsa 2016
Jimmy Buffett, George Strait, Allan Jackson, Dallas, 2004
John Fulbright, Muskogee 2015
Kathy Mattea, Fayettville 2010
Nora Jones, Tulsa, 2007
Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame 2011 with Christen Chenowith
Paul McCartney, OKC, 2004
Paul Thorn Band, Muskogee 2015
Paul Thorn Band, Tulsa, Muskogee 2009, 2010
Paul Thorn, Fort Smith 2010
Paul Thorn, Tulsa 2011
Steve Winwood, Tulsa, 2007
Sugarland with Billy Currington, OKC, 2009
The Time Jumpers with Vince Gill, Cain's 2016
Todd Rundgren, Christopher Cross & Friends, 40 Years Ago Today, Tulsa, 2008
Todd Snider, Gruene Hall, Texas, 2007
U2 360 tour with Black Eyed Peas, Norman!, 2009
Vince Gill, Tulsa Hard Rock, 2011
Zac Brown Band, Vegas, 2009

Mike's Must See Movies

12 Angry Men (The original)
Absence of Malice (Paul Newman, a favorite)
Alien (the first)
Amistad
Blazing Saddles
Body Heat
Bull Durham
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Cool Hand Luke
Crash
Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)
E.T.
Electric Horseman (Redford at his best)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ghandi
Godfather (All three)
Going South (comedy, Jack Nicholson)
Hangover
Heaven Can Wait ( a Favorite)
Hurt Locker
Juno
Lion in Winter
Midnight Run (Comedy, a favorite)
O Brother Where Art Thou
Patton (best war movie)
Raising Arizona
Serpico (Al Pacino, a favorite)
Shawshank Redemption
Sicario
Silverado (western)
Star Wars (first 3)
The End (Comedy with Burt Reynolds & Dom Deloius)
The King's Speech
The Martian
The Verdict (Paul Newman, a favorite)
The World's Fastest Indian
To Kill a Mocking Bird
True Grit 2010

Less Traveled Roads

Thursday, June 4, 2009

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