Re: Going full-time into looping in August

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

cheers Bob!
this makes me want to share a little story,there is a guy everybody knows 
here that does sculptures with balanced stacked stones that lay all over 
the lake,basically he looks for stones and makes up figures,takes 
photographs of them and sells them to the tourists.I had heard of a bit of 
his life story because i was invited to play at his 20 years aniversary of 
his new way of life some years ago so there was a massive party thrown for 
him from all the people and friends that know him.
So i started chatting with him and he said years ago he had houses around 
the lake,cars,a wife and a fulltime neck tie round the clock stressful 
job.But it took its toll and apparently he had a seizure from a nervous 
breakdown.As he laid in the hospital he decided to quit all of it and 
apparently his wife soon went with it all as well when he gave her the 
news.Then he went through lawsuits and lost just about everything.
Then he grew his hair long and took endless walks around the lake and came 
up with the stone sculpturing idea.He told me that all those years he 
never had time to disconnect or enjoy what he had.But now that he has 
nothing he spends with what little he earns doing what he wants and is in 
spain half of the year escaping the long winter here and then if he feels 
like it in the summer he returns or goes somewhere else.So then i asked 
him what he had learned from all of this and he said" i learned that 
people are in general stupid because they still dont know what a real 
millionaire is;-)

Luis


www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- Bob Amstadt <bob@amstadt.com> schrieb am Mo, 6.7.2009:

> Von: Bob Amstadt <bob@amstadt.com>
> Betreff: Re: Going full-time into looping in August
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Datum: Montag, 6. Juli 2009, 13:29
> Well, when I first got the news in
> April, I was frightened, then I was angry, and then I
> finally realized that it was a good thing.  I've got a
> severance package coming my way and I already have my hands
> on my retirement account.  So, now I can take the money
> and happily do what I've really wanted to do for the past 5
> years.  I've got a list of things that I've wanted
> Looperlative to do but haven't had the time to do
> them.  Now I have the time and I can explore all of my
> ideas.
> 
> Bob
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > Feels more like a cattle prod for most I'd
> guess?  8-(
> > -- Miko Biffle
> > 
> >> Well, I didn't say that I quit, but hey, sometimes
> the universe just needs
> >> to give you a nudge. ;-)   Bob
> > 
> >>>  Hey.. shit.. LETS ALL QUIT ! ! ! Im up
> for it...
> 
>