The Lesson: You can do ANY damn thing you want to do. Believe that. AND we all have the opportunity to sculpt the life we want, exactly the way we want it. It IS possible. Jake Ducey is a reminder of that lesson. He has radically stepped off the straight and narrow, and forged a …

It takes courage to be a doer… A courage incomparable. Courage to endure change, to listen to your inner longings, to submit to your burning desires, to forge new paths without a roadmap to victory, to fight for yourself and your dreams, and to believe that there is to be grace eventually bestowed on you …

This was a refreshing sentiment when I first heard it back in the day. And, as a matter of fact, it still is… Interviewing Stic, one of the two artists behind dead prez, was electrifying. I could actually feel his high energy and utmost gratitude for life. Back in the day dead prez injected politically-charged, …