We heard an interview with Natalie Meling the other day, talking about her new album “Titanic Rising.” One comment stayed with us: she talked about “chasing the empties” and how her memory of a friend inspired “Picture Me Better”. How lots of the stressors in the world create “the empties” that just won’t go away.

That made us remember a talk at a hospitality sales conference many years ago. “The Stress Doctor” had one simple suggestion: find a moment in your memory or on an upcoming day when everything seems perfect. Absorb the sun on your face, or the wind, or the snowflakes; and take in every detail so you can go back to that place in your mind whenever you need to hit the ‘pause’ button. To chase the “empties.”

Thinking more about it, our brain (the universal DJ) cued up John Denver: “You fill up my senses…” And that’s exactly where “chasing the empties” meets “oceanside memories made in Maine.”

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