It took me leaving a 20-year career on Wall Street, having a baby at 43 and a living through a couple of serious health scares to realize that my own health and wellbeing greatly affect the health and wellbeing of everyone and everything around me.

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So when I did the score for "Dead Man, " I had the film projected on TV screens, and I had, like, about 20 TVs all around me, big ones, little ones, tiny little portables, and wide screens and everything hanging from the ceiling in a big semicircle all the way around me.

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"Everything was happening so fast around me, and it wasn't actually until I heard those words out of my wife, talking to my daughter, that I thought, 'Geez, I could die, ' " von Lipinski remembers.

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Everything seemed huge--the century-old trees above and the butterflies and amazing dragonflies that hovered and nosedived around me.

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