A Small Home in NYC, Part 1: Quiet Practice
Part 1 of the series, "A Small Home in NYC." Without a "quiet practice," it can be difficult to truly know yourself and follow your instincts. Taking on some type of daily meditation, yoga, prayer, walking, martial arts, etc., is a necessary prerequisite if you are going to successfully live small.
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The beginning of my new series, "A Small Home in NYC." Apartment living, in an exciting city like New York, can be an ecologically smart alternative to buying or building a house. People always say living in New York is too expensive, but the costs and benefits might not always be clear to non-city dwellers. In fact, I think apartment living in NYC is a cost-effective way to live small in America!
ReadSteve Gadd Natural Finish Sticks!
It's no secret to every clerk that has had the unfortunate luck of talking to me at any drum shop or drum department in NYC or Nashville that I think Steve Gadd sticks from Vic Firth are just perfect, the best sticks ever, well, except for the black paint.
ReadKeystoneJS - still amazing after all these years!
I have been committed to NodeJS, Express and the MEAN stack for a few years now. It has made my life as a developer more efficient, especially when integrating with various cloud services -- there's a node module for everything! But the real game changer has been an ExpressJS / React based application framework called KeystoneJS.
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