Lucky & Generous

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Lisa Purdy is a singer-songwriter from Seattle and Jim Bouchard is a singer songwriter from Boston, and they have been collaborating over the internet on songs since 2007. Recently spurred on by their new cover of Squeeze's "Hourglass", they've decided to make it official and come up with a name for their collaboration. Lisa suggested this name, and Jim did some googling and came up with this quote from some blog: "Here is what the choreographer Twyla Tharp has to say about luck in her marvelous book, The Creative Habit: Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. What are they doing that singles them out? It isn't dumb luck if it happens repeatedly. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.

So how do you get luck? Here is Tharp's advice:
Be generous.
I'll repeat that: to get lucky, be generous. Here's why: Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you.
If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune."

It seemed like a nice sentiment so that's what they're going with.

Jim generally plays all the instruments and sometimes sings and Lisa writes the words and sings. Lisa also plays guitar but that hasn't worked into their collaborations yet.

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Thursday 08th 2009f January 2009Updated: 04 Jan 2009 02:45 AM
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