Tonight I got an advance copy of TED magazine. I have written an article in it - and although the full copy of the magazine won’t be released until Sept. 21 in London at a special TED Salon, you can read the story I wrote here now! For those of you who got the full PDF earlier? MY BAD! I misunderstood about posting the whole thing. Please BUY a copy at the TED store. Sam and the frog crew did such an AWESOME job…it’s WELL worth the purchase! You …
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Patience, I admit. Is NOT one of my strong suites. So this round of hives, hives and more hives, emergency room visit after visit so I can breathe, and sores in my throat, mouth and stomach and all over my body? Not fun. They’re putting a definite crimp in my trip. They started - the first round, in 1996, in Virginia. They lasted for 6 weeks and the doctors thought they were stress related. Every two years after that, for 6 to 8 weeks, they return, always in August. I …
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Tonight I got an advance copy of TED magazine. I have written an article in it - and although the full copy of the magazine won’t be released until Sept. 21 in London at a special TED Salon, you can read the story I wrote here now! For those of you who got the full PDF earlier? MY BAD! I misunderstood about posting the whole thing. Please BUY a copy at the TED store. Sam and the frog crew did such an AWESOME job…it’s WELL worth the purchase! You …
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Spiders and I have a long history - not all of it is pretty. For those who look to symbols in your dreams and your world, the spider is an ancient symbol of power, mystery and growth. It represents a lot of things in various cultures - almost all of them related to power, death and control. It’s not just the spider, it’s the web it weaves and more. Like my van is my home, one I create wherever I am, so the spider’s web is a way it takes …
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“Are we there yet?” I don’t know. Maybe “there” is not really a place at all, like Never-Never-Land. It’s a place where we dream of, long for, aspire to, but never really find. This is my favorite photo - the tag I have between my speedometer on the van’s dash. I like to write about it a lot because I think about it a lot - “Am I there yet?”
The hardest part about answering that question is defining where “There” is. Is it a certain amount of money in …
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Ever notice how your external life reflects what’s happening internally? You feel angry and pissy, the people around you react to you the same way. For those who are metaphysically inclined, it goes deeper of course.
This week I spent a lot of time in the Emergency Room with hives, and heat exhaustion and dehydration. When exiting the parking garage my mirror was smashed against a concrete post - shattering it into dozens of pieces and making it difficult, if not impossible to see what was coming up behind me. I …