Sally Suggestions | 30 April 2023
Things discovered in real life and online that you may like too.
BOOK I’M LOVING - ‘The Creative Act: A Way of Being’ by Rick Rubin.
I am halfway through and it has already been gold!
He is a legendary music producer. His list is so damn long I don’t even know where to start.
Run DMC
Beastie Boys
Public Enemy
Johnny Cash
Tom Petty
on and On and ON
page 50
If you make the choice of reading classic literature every day for a year, rather than reading the news, by the end of that time period you’ll have a more honed sensitivity for recognizing greatness from books than from mediaThis applies to every choice we make….. with friends we choose, the conversations we have, even the thoughts we reflect on.
Because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully CURATING THE QUALITY OF WHAT WE ALLOW IN.
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ARTICLE WORTH READING - Mr. Harry Belafonte (Singer / Actor / ACTIVIST
clip from The New York Times article -
he quietly maintained an insurance policy on Dr. King’s life, with the King family as the beneficiary, and donated his own money to make sure that the family was taken care of after Dr. King was assassinated in 1968.
![A black and white photo of Mr. Belafonte, in a dark suit and tie, sitting at a small table in a bare room with Martin Luther King, who wears a gray suit and tie. They sit on wooden folding chairs. A black and white photo of Mr. Belafonte, in a dark suit and tie, sitting at a small table in a bare room with Martin Luther King, who wears a gray suit and tie. They sit on wooden folding chairs.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f1c99e4-3697-4b19-a50b-84d4ac3ce976_600x658.jpeg)
SALUTE to a life well lived - Mr. Harry Belafonte (March 1, 1927 - April 25, 2023)
THAT’S IT Y’ALL - see ya here next Sunday at 3p CT
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