Happy belated birthday, Matt! Here’s to a fantastic year. 🙂

Congratulations on your 29th! Not many have such an old head, perched on such young shoulders.

I remember an episode from the TV series, Kung Fu, where the star, as a young lad, is asked by his blind Master Po, to close his eyes and to them tell him what he hears. His reply was that he didn’t hear much of anything – at which point the Master asks if he hears the grasshopper chirping at his feet.

“How is it old man”, the young lad asks, “that you can hear it”? The master’s reply: “Young man, how is it, you can not?”

May you always hear the grasshoppers, Matt.

With best regards,

Fred Parry

And I’m laughing as I read the last sentence. A goal of mine started this summer was to take time for losing myself in movies on a regular basis, something I lost after I turned thirty. You just named the movies I watched this year.

The one thing I know to be true are the words from those who say it gets better each decade. It does. It doesn’t seem like it, but 40 will be better than 30. There may be a slight dip, but 50 will be even better. However it works, enjoy every moment. It’s the only one you will have. 😀

You’re an outsider. Own it.

I had a big quarter life crisis at 25 after my first startup failed.. 28 ATM and hoping to accomplish something significant by 30 🙂

Good Cinema: check out “In the Mood for Love” It’s a film from Hong Kong by Wong Kar-wai.