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Welcome to everything financial and everything pro music business. We realize that dealing with the finances of your music company isn't the sexiest or the most exciting item on the menu, but it is essential to your survival. If you can't figure out an easy way to stay on top of the numbers and to keep your finances healthy - chances are - you may not be around very long. We are here for you and your music company, to help clarify your thinking; so you can navigate successfully through the briars and brambles of this cluttered and demanding industry. At the iFn we are focused on the future. Your future. We can handle the heavy lifting when it comes to your finances. We can free you up from the mundane accounting functions of your organization, so that you can dedicate yourself 100% to what you do best - and more importantly - what makes you money. If you look around a little, you can see that we are much more than your typical left-brained accountant types. In addition to the number crunching - which we certainly excel at - we like to think with our whole brains, and provide creative, right-brained solutions to the complex problems of today's music business. To learn more about us, please head over to the history page. To see the range of services we provide, please proceed to the services page. To see a list of our clients please head over to the clients page. Contact us with any questions you may have at 1-877-BUZZ-IFN - or email us at: moreinfo@indieFINANCIALnetwork.com. We hope you enjoy your stay - come back and visit us again.
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BERNADINE FEATURED IN "CAR KULTURE DELUXE"
Kudos go out to Alan Mayes of Car Kulture Deluxe magazine for publishing an article on "Bernadine". The article features photos of the car by pin up photographer extraordinaiew Viva Van Story. For more on this wild 1929 Ford Model A Mutt Rod go here.
A WORD ABOUT "HAPPY THE MAN"
Lots of good folks out there continue to inquire about HAPPY THE MAN, even though the band has basically been inactive for a number of years. We found a new synopsis of the band on Wikopedia recently and discovered that it was insightful and reasonably comprehensive. If you merely want the Cliff Notes version of the band you can go here. For a more in-depth look at the band, proceed here. Above are the eight officially sanctioned CD's with a at least a dozen unsanctioned "live" bootlegs available. If you are interested in taking a look at Rick's guitar collection go here.
TO BE BORN IS TO BE CHOSEN
To be born is to be chosen. No one is here by accident. Each one of us was sent here for a special destiny. When a fact is read in a spiritual way, its deeper meaning often emerges. When you consider the moment of conception, there are endless possibilities. Yet in most cases, only one child is conceived. This seems to suggest that a certain selectivity is already at work. This selectivity intimates a sheltering providence which dreamed you, created you and always minds you. You were not consulted on the major questions which shape your destiny: when you were to be born; where you would be born; to whom you would be born. Imagine the difference it would have made in your life had you been born into the house next door. Your identity was not offered for your choosing. In other words, a special destiny was prepared for you. But you were also given freedom and creativity to go beyond the given, to make a new set of relationships and to forge an ever new identity, inclusive of the old, but not limited to it. This is the secret pulse of growth, which is quietly at work behind the outer façade of your life; freedom finds and fills its inner form.
For millions of years, before you arrived here, the dream of your individuality was carefully prepared. You were sent to a shape of destiny in which you would be able to express the special gift you bring to the world. Sometimes this gift may involve suffering and pain that can neither be accounted for nor explained. Each one of us has something to do here that can be done by no one else. If someone else could fulfill your destiny, then they would be in your place and you would not be here. It is in the depths of your life that you will discover the invisible necessity which has brought you here. When you begin to decipher this, your gift and giftedness come alive. Your heart quickens and the urgency of living rekindles your creativity.
If you can awaken this sense of destiny, you come into rhythm with your life. You fall out of rhythm when you renege on your potential and talent, when you settle for the mediocre as a refuge from the call. When you lose rhythm your life becomes wearyingly deliberate or anonymously automatic. Rhythm is the secret key to balance and belonging. This will not collapse into false contentment or passivity. It is the rhythm of a dynamic equilibrium, a readiness of spirit, a poise which is not self-centered. This sense of rhythm is ancient. All life came out of the ocean; each one of us comes out of the waters of the womb; the ebb and flow of the tides is alive in the ebb and flow of our breathing. When you are in rhythm with your nature nothing destructive can touch you. Providence is at one with you; it minds you and brings you to new horizons. To be spiritual is to be in rhythm.
-ANAM CARA - Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World by John O’Donahue
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