The Website of Peter Link

“I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to … stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

I am one of the many whose hero is Steven Jobs. In 1985 I bought a Mac XL computer from a little known company with a funny name and became a devotee of both Apple and it’s wondrous leader for the next 26 years. In that time I’ve owned nearly every successful product they’ve created.

I spent last evening with the Missus in what has now become my favorite place to be on the planet – Carnegie Hall. Inspirational music rose to another high point with a visit from the Philadelphia Orchestra to our fair city. The Missus and I were given gift tickets (better n’ Christmas) and though we sat up in the nose-bleed section, 4th Tier and no place for vertigo sufferers, I was amazed once again by the acoustics of this wondrous concert hall.

We are exploring this very real possibility right now with a new CD, Goin’ Home – On Heaven and Beyond to be released in November of 2011 and promises to be an in-depth look at a subject that many of us spend most of our lives avoiding. Here is a joyful, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, exploration of the transition from this world to the next. It’s really a celebration of eternal life.

A Community… A gathering of people who have like-minded purpose… Not at all people who are like-minded, in fact, better that they are all original thinkers, formulating their ideas, their life plans, their social structures, their life work, their religions, and creativity from a truly internal impulse. Not followers, but leaders and thinkers and doers. People who like people. People who are positive supporters of the good in all people. People who are an Inspiration to others.

What surprises you most about humanity? Question asked to the Dalai Lama.

Money may not make the world go around, but it does help gather people together sometimes to give it a little push. In this day and age of the music industry blues, sometimes that little push is needed. In the case of Inspirational music, the time is now.

In an earlier marriage my wife at the time chanted the Nichiren-Buddhist mantra “Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo”. She was going through a particularly rough stretch in her life and she would go off and chant in our guest bedroom every day for a couple of hours. She would always emerge from these sessions a different person – calm, centered, and quietly joyful.