I took a very zen approach, I think, to the big birth day itself. I worked and played online with friends in the morning. I posted the blog post for the day before. Then I went to the pool and steam room that is in the building I am staying in (and part of why …
Monthly Archive: November 2012
Nov 30
Love more, fear less, thrive on insight
Guest post from Evonne Heyning, for Jean40: At first I tried to write an ode… A terrible attempt, full of woe. I thought maybe a sonnet or haiku… Words failed me as they always do. Jean’s eyes come to me in dreams Asking the piercing question of intent I do not know …
Nov 29
An Honest Day’s Work
After a liesurely morning of work, I set off to Brixton to meet Mamading Cessay and Sofia Bustamante of London Creative Labs. I first saw Mamading’s name when he was poking around wagn many years ago. Then I started following him on twitter. And about 2 years ago I met him in person. We share …
Nov 28
Being Thwarted
How does this even happen? Some part of me is always so surprised and amazed at the experiences I have… United was unusually delayed… first the plane was late arriving, then when we arrived in Chicago, they didn’t have a gate for us. The anxiety level in the plane kept increasing. Finally, half of us …
Nov 27
What turns a stranger into a friend?
In 2006, when I left my marriage, I booked a trip to Budapest. I had never been outside North America, although I had been to almost every state. I had wanted to go to Europe since I was a child. Every continent, really. I had planned, at 13, to go to one continent per decade, …
Nov 24
40th Birthday Request
I have a birthday request. I would really love it if my friends wrote something briefly about: what the connection has given them a meaningful memory of our time together or what I mean to them. Would you be up for giving that to me and to us? much much gratitude. Here is what …
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