Category: Laughter

“What are you doing up there Bert?”  -Mary Poppins

We love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
We love to laugh
So ev’rybody can hear
The more you laugh
The more you fill with glee
And the more the glee
The more we’re a merrier we!

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Happy Music

HappyMusic

Here’s one of the most enjoyable music videos I have made to date. I actually made this song back in Seoul, South Korea, 2007, on one particularly beautiful morning. I was teaching some gifted students ESL at a University in the afternoons and went in and gave a demo of the song to the students. There was one great student who loved it instantly and started dancing and “grooving” in such a way that is so pleasing and affirmative for a creator to witness. It gave me more confidence in this track and I developed in more. It has great opening riff, which I originally recorded on my Fender Stratocaster. It was a great recording but I tried to make a certain vocal harmony in it, which just didn’t really add to the song and was hard to do.

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I Love To Laugh – Mary Poppins

One of the biggest secrets to a long, healthy life is a light-hardheartedness attitude and humor is one of the greatest ways to “keep your spirit lifted off the ground”.  Take another look at Mary Poppins just to remind yourself and your family of these life-saving truths!  Or take a look at the unbelievable story of Norman Cousins who cured himself with laughter!

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The Laughing Cure

The Remarkable And True Story of Norman Cousins

“Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.”

   -Norman Cousins

In his novel, Anatomy of an Illness, Norman Cousins describes his rigorous recovery from ankylosing spondylitis, a painful collagen illness that rendered him immobile, and at its nadir, nearly incapable of moving his jaw. His doctor and long time Continue reading “The Laughing Cure”