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Birthday today. Not doing too bad for 44. I certainly don’t feel it. Off to explore the world tomorrow 🇯🇵 Tokyo, India, Nepal, Thailand and wherever else the universe wills me.

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Hello 👋 Tokyo 🇯🇵

The last month I've been talking with a Hip Hop/R&B legacy Record Label & their parent company Reservoir Media about MTV REWIND. I'm pleased to announce we are entering into a partnership with TOMMY BOY RECORDS (Coolio, De La Soul, Queen Latifah etc) Epic month for Rewind!🤘

Story Time: I turn 44 on Monday, every weekend for the last 40 years there’s been a gem and mineral faire here in the town I grew up in Oregon…… When I was a child, my grandmother brought back fantastical gemstones back from living in Brazil where my grandfather was producing a movie called “The Moon Over Parador.” This started my lifelong fascination and my career actually since I spent over a decade as a crystal dealer. So back to the story of this particular stone…..when I was 11, I took all the money I had which was around $40 I’d earn for mowing lawns and I was dropped off at this mineral show to find myself a crystal. I ended up buying a green apophyllite which is a fairly common zeolite from India and I can remember haggling with the person to get a good deal on it. It was huge and over 100 dollars retail so for $40 It was a decent bargain at the time, that was the first “serious mineral” I remember buying for myself. I still have it in my collection 33 years later. So today I went to this mineral fair with the goal to find myself a green apophyllite and relive the scene from my childhood- the woman even asked far too much for it and I was able to haggle all the price from 50 down to 30. When I told her the story of why I was purchasing this particular stone, she laughed and said it was meant to be. Sometimes things really do come full circle ⭕️ circle in life, just have to keep chasing those little bits of magic. 🪄

If you think you are the only one struggling in the US..... this might convince you otherwise..... "Recent prominent national studies indicate that roughly 43% to 53% of Americans do not have enough cash liquidity to handle a $1,000 emergency expense, while broader polls looking at total cash savings find that between 37% and 69% of U.S. adults hold less than $1,000 in their primary accounts."