OLD BLOG- Bones Rodriguez- Actor,Author, Entrepreneur

I went to an audition for AARP, and my agent giggled. Then I went to the call back, and I posted that on facebook, and my friends had a ball making "You're getting old" jokes. But then I actually Booked the commercial!!! Thankfully, I am not yet the subject of an AARP commercial, but I was proud to be a part of it, and we had fun shooting it. The woman who is the subject took a zillion takes of the same thing over and over, and she kept the same level of heart-tugging the whole day. I was an upper-middle income shopper in the same store. Fun day, and MANY, MANY jokes on facebook!

The video below is a preview for a video game. This video game is from the Writer of Red Dawn and Apocalypse Now. It is another step towards the end of movies, and everything becoming video games instead: I think I'd better start doing voice overs for games FAST!!

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People are always talking about America being a world leader in this and that, and I wonder how true that is. We've been losing ground in every area, just like someone who got comfortable with their lead, and then just stopped trying to be better. That made me wonder what kind of PERSON we want America to be in the world scene. If every country were a person in high school, who would America be? I se us lately as becoming a bully, as someone who is really dumb, getting dumber, but has an amazing sense of self-confidence. He (most definitely is a man) likes to flex his muscles and threaten people from doing whatever he doesn't agree with. He also thinks his religion is the best, and everyone should speak his language. But what kind of a person do we WANT America to be? Well, for me I'd like someone who is respectful of other ideas and beliefs, who is popular among the crowd- not because he kisses ass, but because he values other people. I would also like to see him (th...

I got a great message today from Neale Donald Walsch, and I thought I'd pass it on... " On this day of your life,  Bones,  I believe God wants you to know... . ...that love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal. Yet you cannot  give  love in order to  get  it. Doing that is as much as saying you do not now have it. And that statement will, of course, be your reality. No, you must give love because you  have it to give. In this will you experience your own possession of it."

WHat a great new video for HUB, with Spryte's warm voice over it. If you'd like to make a difference in the world, and in your own life, then GET WITH IT and join HUB today: Click HERE and join HUB today!

Humanity Unites Brilliance created a new short video to promote some of the ideas that we are working to get into the common consciousness. This video "Your Dollars, Your Choice" makes a great short arguement for what our world SHOULD be: If you dig it, CLICK HERE to visit YourDollarsYourChoice.org

A wonderful story of how we can help each other.   A True Duck Story from San Antonio , Texas Something really cute happened in downtown San Antonio this week. Michael R. is an accounting clerk at Frost Bank and works there in a second story office.  Several weeks ago, he watched a mother duck choose the concrete awning outside his window as the unlikely place to build a nest above the sidewalk. The mallard laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of the planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air. She dutifully kept the eggs warm for weeks, and Monday afternoon all of her ten ducklings hatched. Michael worried all night how the momma duck was going to get those babies safely off their perch in a busy, downtown, urban environment to take to water, which typically happens in the first 48 hours of a duck hatching. Tuesday morning, Michael watched the mother duck encourage her babies to the edge of the perch with the intent to show them how to jump off.  Office wo...

Derek Sivers ends this obvious lesson with a twist that I hadn't thought of:

Fair Trade Coffee creates FREEDOM for farmers in other parts of the world; that's why I'm helping: CLICK HERE TO HELP THE FARMERS

This movie may change your entire life... not a joke. Lately I've been talking about a lot of different ideas that are in this film, and I think I somehow asked the Universe to send it to me. I hope you watch the whole thing: If you liked it, CLICK HERE

This is a great short segment on Humanity Unites Brilliance, and how the model of giving is changing. Looks a little kooky with everyone holding hands, but maybe it shouldn't.

We Congratulate the Calgary Musicians & the Calgary Drop In Centre and we THANK HUB Impact Associate Louise Gallagher - Production Manager Homeless musicians from the Drop In Centre in Calgary, along with local musicians, stand together in this spirited rendition of Ben E. King's Stand by Me. In their standing together to perform this powerful song, hope is strengthened, spirits rise, and lives are changed. HUB Impact Associate Louise Gallagher of the DI was the Production Manager of this video. What a great job- again, HUBBIES from all over the world are filling in the gaps! Thank you Louise Gallagher!!

This is a Video from the StarShine Training in Liberia- 700 People showed up! The power went out (it happens), so the women had to teach by MEGAPHONE! Where there's a will, there's a way! liberia_8-20-3B_s_with_Megaphone.MOV - DivShare

Look at the love that these women have for each other... it's amazing: Patience and love- what can't they do?

Great story as told by Johhny Lee Clary, Former Ku Klux Klan leader about meeting Reverend Wade Watts: When we use our heart, how far can we go?

Spryte Loriano, fresh off Liberia’s largest teacher training in its history, heads out to the countryside to follow up with impact programs in the rural areas. This is her report: The HUB/StarShine 3-Day Teacher Training may be over for now, but now the journey of impact continues this week into the “interior” of Liberia. The road to Grand Bassa County and the city of Buchannan took us five hours on Saturday, which was slower than usual, due to a cautious driver on very bumpy roads – the usual joke from visitors is, “I like a little road with my potholes.” I must be getting use to being knocked around by the roads in Liberia, for I actually slept most of the way there – either that, or I was just exhausted from the excitement and energy of the previous few days! Upon arrival, we dropped off a new generator and two new computers to complete first round of ten computers at the Youth Action International Computer Training Center! This center is the fulfillment of a promise made to th...

In case you don't know the story, King Midas was granted one wish by Dionysus, and he wished that everything he touched be turned into Gold. He soon realized that he couldn't eat or drink, because everything he touched was turned into gold. Seeing his despair, his daughter hugged him, and she too turned into gold. Starving and distraught, Midas begged Dionysus to take back his golden touch and to return everything to how it was. Dionysus made Midas wash his wish away in the river, and restored his daughter. King Midas then lived with less gold, but felt "richer" because he appreciated everything a lot more... He went back to being a regular King (!). If you see The United States as King Midas, I think there are a few parallels we can see: 1- The U.S. has been king in many areas, but it hasn't been enough; our "golden touch" country has citizens who are homeless, starving, and sick. Our food industry poisons us because it creates more gold for the compa...

A woman's husband gets a terrible sickness, and is denied coverage from their carrier. The husband dies. The woman says "we were covered, but they decided not to pay- I thought they were here to help us." WRONG. And that's the problem with our capitalist system: It's focus is THE BOTTOM LINE- nothing else. It assumes that the "best" business (meaning the one that helps the most people) will be rewarded the most. Under the classic capitalist idea that would be true, but it is NOT true in practice. I'm a BIG Ayn Rand fan and all of that, but there's no point in arguing theory versus truth. The ONLY focus of a business is to count the profits, so it gets more investors, who want to grow their profits together, there is NO OTHER CONCERN. That means if a product is dangerous, but it makes money- it is JUSTIFIED. If a business kills people (or, more to the point, lets them die), it is JUSTIFIED. The BOTTOM LINE is never looking out for Humans. It has ...

Today’s Word…Wow! Friday, August 21st, 2009 Written by: sprytel Hope for Liberian Teachers have been returned to them this week. 15 years of war saw practically all teachers flee or be killed. Now through HUB’s teacher training program with Phoenix-based StarShine Academy and Youth Action International, hope has returned and a plan to bring education to a country has been fostered. Spryte Loriano, HUB’s Chief Humanitarian Officer, files this momentous Day 3 report from the Civic Assembly Hall, Monrovia Liberia: “Trish wanted to ‘wow’ them today, our over 600 student Teachers in the HUB/StarShine Teacher Training. So we arrived exactly at 10:00am when the workshop was to begin. We arrived through the back door that lets us directly onto the stage. And the four of us – Trish, Jan, Amber and myself were wearing traditional Liberian dresses complete with headwraps! As soon as they saw us appear on stage from behind our makeshift scree...