Life in The Cocoon

"Inadvertently spinning my own Cocoon?"

It’s been one year since I’ve moved full time to Los Angeles; one year since my main project, music band Here II Here, called it quits. In this past year, I’ve worked hard to launch Here II Here singer/songwriter Ash Ruiz’s solo project, including producing one of the best music videos I’ve ever seen and

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"Life is like a Willy Wonka Burning Man Dust-storm White-out"

Have you ever experienced a white-out dust storm in the desert??How about in your Life? (c) Scott Williams – Website photo by “Jay” – His Album In a few days, I’m headed off to Burning Man Festival, the massive annual festival where the human imagination (the lighter side) is set loose upon a 400 sq-mile

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You are Permanently Employed by the Universe

“You are permanently employed by the Universe.” ~ Marianne Williamson I heard Marianne say that a few weeks ago at one of her brilliant weekly lectures in Beverly Hills. At the time, I was sitting in the midst of uncomfortable professional stagnancy as a transformational artist manager. My various projects appeared to me either stalled

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Completely Enshrouded by Uncertainty

“The point of life is not to have the perfect family or get the right job or sell millions of albums … the point is simply to wake up.” ~ Ash Ruiz “We gotta work through our shit; we can’t just overpower it.” ~ Me These blogs are adventures in vulnerability for me. I have

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