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A morning of closing the loop on yesterdays episode on “Batch episode editing” and then a bunch of definitions like Reverence, Deference, and Esteem.  And some ACIM highlighted sentences.

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I’ve been batch publishing the podcast episodes.  It takes two days to schedule a weeks worth of episodes.  

I find that when I do that I’m much less paying attention to recording new episodes.  The podcast falls out of my radar for the week.  And I get panicky…  I’m never gonna have content again.  And I get in that panic mode!  How am I gonna keep up that pace?  How am I gonna do an episode a day for the rest of the year?  And what am I gonna do year two?

And then the thought was…  “Who cares?”

So was I like I just need to get back on the mic yo!  Or I’ll never have another episode again.

As I was reading ACIM this morning and writing down definitions…  ACIM instructs you too, “As yourself this, can you protect the mind?”  I do not have the answer for you I am meditating on it :).

Reverence, according to Webster: 1 Honor or respect felt or shown; deference.

Deference: Respect and esteem do a superior or an elder.

Esteem: The regard in which one is held.  Especially high regard.

2 A gesture of respect

3 A state of being revered.

One held in reverence; used as a title for a clergymen.

Great lines from a course in miracles this morning.

Let not your foolish fancies frighten you.

What is immortal cannot be attacked.  What is but temporal has but no effect.

Temporal

1a of or relating to time as opposed to eternity.

b of or relating to earthly life.

c lay or secular rather than clerical or civil.

Lay: Calm, Allay.

Allay: To make quiet.

Secular: 1b not overtly or specifically religious.  I always get that confused.

Back to temporal:

2 of or relating to grammatical tense or a distinction of time.

3a of or relating to time as distinguished from space.

3b of or relating to the sequence of time or too a particular time; chronological.

Noun.  Temporal as a noun: a bodily part such as a bone or muscle that is near the temples or the sides of the skull behind the orbits. (That is where my brain normally goes).

As an Adjective: 2 of or relating to the temples or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

What is immortal cannot be attacked what is but temporal has no effect.  That gives me calm :).

ACIM - Perception: It is the outward picture of a wish, an image that you wanted to be true.

“Their difference does not lie in how they look, nor where they go, nor even what they do.”  The illusion that if I change my motiv my action will be different.   They have a different purpose.  My pre-destined actions have a different purpose in my brain.  And then I see everybody else’s as different too.

Do I choose to see the son of man or the son of God?  That’s the thought that I am gonna take out to my day.

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It’s very energetically and emotionally taxing to interview people for the summit and then having to go back and work up the podcast interviews.  It’s hard for me too do both right now all the time…  So I cheated on Interview #24 Courtney L.  A little talk on sleepless nights and “loan mares” from my mortgage days and what are “summit mares” now!

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I have taken to scheduling the release of episodes a week at a time.  Editing, writing the notes, this that and the other thing.  The Interview #24 Courtney L. interview, it’s the first time it’s like if I have to listen to this whole thing and take notes I’m not going to get it published…

It takes a lot of emotional effort to listen to the interview, take the notes, write the details…  And the interviewing for the summit takes a lot of energy.  I don’t have the energy to edit down one of these podcast interviews…  So I dropped that note in there…  I thought it was funny and it was a breakthrough for me, allowing it to be a little more messy.  But it might have actually been less messy.  It was very freeing non the less.  All of a sudden I had an extra 2, 3, or 4 hours…  and it felt good to relax.  I was gonna use all that extra time to be more productive.  But I just was free to take a nap.

Part B.  I have been very restless sleeping.  Once the summit was in full effect I was very restless in my sleeping.  My mentor says…  “Your’e Stressed”.   LOL.  Oh, that’s what it is.

Holy spirit please use my dreams on behalf of waking.  Perhaps we are actually sleeping to whats actually around us…  The illusion that time is actually a thing.  Perhaps we won’t know until we die.  And our bodies no longer serve a purpose on the planet as we know it.

I had “loan mares” when I was in the mortgage business.  Where I would just be running loan scenarios and it would wake me up in the middle of the night.  Now it’s “summit mares”.  It’s like I’m trying to get things done while I’m sleeping.  If I’m restless when I’m sleeping I’m not in the moment.

Maybe I need to start saying that little blurb again.  “Holy spirit please use my dreams on behalf of waking”.  Wait a minute, my dreams are being used on behalf of waking, because it’s waking me to the reality of all we have is this moment.

When I’m in the moment all these illusions slip away.  The trick for me right now is when I’m restless and sleeping and churning though interview scenarios or copy ideas…  Hey can I come back to the moment when I am restless?  A) loving the fact that the mind is churning, can I cease control of that and let that go?   B) I’m in bed nothing needs to be done other than being in bed!

Free feel to email a comment…  What this to far out there :)?

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Waylon, my youngest son, graduated on the day that I recorded this.  And it susses out all kinds of emotions.  From end of child support payments to the massive marker of time it’s quite a day.  And my friend drops an amazing thought bomb on me.  “How about if you spot it you got it and it's about what you admire in people.  If you spot it you’ve got that.”  And well Waylon just is amazing to me so…

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Today was the day that my 2nd son, my youngest son, I have two sons, graduated high school.

I interviewed Arlina Allen (interview #28)….  And she said the most impactful thing to me.  I am all in on the “if you spot it you got it”.  But I always think of it in terms of negatives.  So I judge this person and it’s a reflection of myself.   She said how about this, how about if you spot it you got it and its about what you admire in people.  If you spot it you’ve got that.

“Holy crap!” That is amazing…. So I started thinking about who do I admire. That’s a cool thought.  So that’s been brewing in my mind. And as I’m seeing people I like I’m like “I’ve got that!”

I recorded this on June 11… my son graduated high school today. My other son two years ago this day. It’s a very big marker of time.  And I’m sensitive to that :).  Tmi- my child support ended. And I thought it was going to be one of those “be all end all” type of moments. And it wasn’t. It’s not that big a deal. Which is crazy to me.  My boys graduating, wow!  That heavy dadness is complete.  

Waylon today at graduation - he was just having fun at graduation.  He spontaneously erupted at the crowd in this beautiful way.  Someone happened to snap a picture. And I was like I fucking love him!  Waylon’s personality is so rad.  I admire it so.  

…and I was thinking of Arlina. Omg, I’ve got a personality and I’ve got to love that about myself. It’s this cathartic moment :).  Loving myself for who I am loving people for who they are :).

Cooper lee showed up for his brother in a big way!  He made it through the two hour graduation.  Encouraging his brother. I just can’t tell you how much I love him too.

Dawn and I shedding tears of joy.  And just thinking of the people who have gone before and who are coming behind. Life is trippy.  If you’ve had kids and made it through god bless you.  If you’ve got young ones and you're on your way god bless you.

They (Cooper and Waylon) hugged and it was beautiful.  

Amy torn god bless you for snapping that picture.  OMG!  So amazing!

And then me just being able to love my boys for who they are and what I admire in them and go “you know what?  That’s in me too. Fuck Yeah!”

Omg. All these interviews. I was meditating today. Just so tired.  Just interviewing people.  It just emotionally wears me out.  They are just amazing.  

Both Robert Drysdale and Anthony Trucks talked about loving themselves and not needing to please everybody.  As points of learning as they’ve gotten older.  I really needed to hear it.  It’s been a process of loving who I am.  Loving who we are in a non arrogant way.  That’s been the trick for me. Love me or leave me wrapped up in as little arrogance as possible.  

…I was physically and mentally exhausted from the summit.  And beat down.  And I asked the universe “how can I be of service to Waylon? How can I make this about Waylon today?”  And my attitude changed in an instant.  

I was just laughing as crying on my walk after it all.

The big marker of time “check”.

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Young entrepreneur Thomas Lancer is in Russell Brunson’s high end coaching group the 2CCX with me.  And I record one of our conversations.  I was calling him for help for the summit where he’s one step ahead of me.  Barley into his 20’s he is determined to chart his own path and grow his own business.  We talk his early life and inspiration, the pressures of the 2CCX coaching program, publishing, podcasts, AND ALL THINGS SUMMITs…

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As A junior Thomas was training 20 hour per week to go swim D1 in collage and perhaps the Naval Academy, even going so far as to having his nomination from the senator… And an epiphany starts to strike him…  Maybe I should walk away from all my full ride scholarships…

Think and Grow Rich and The 4 Hour Work Week…  were an early inspiration.  As well as a professor who had a billion dollar exit…

“I realized that business school in university is more like employee school”.

Then he’s got to contend with his parents…

And for the rest you’ll just have to keep listening. 

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I’m having great momentum with the Summit!  More on needing to feel “special”  How all the interviewing from the podcast and the summit speakers is affecting change in me.  And the ideal that action creates action.  So focus on the efforts and not the results.  

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This episode is to talk about some success some momentum.  Feeling like I’m on the right track, trusting in god, taking the next indicated step, not worrying until it’s time to worry.  All these things are paying off.

A Course In Miracles is talking about not feeling special.  This need to feel special.  More special and comparing ourselves to others ultimately is the cause of massive discontentment.  As ACIM likes to say the cause of separation and sin.  And Feeling that people are sinful and guilty and that I am sinful and guilty.  The “sin” part may feel a little dogmatic but if you can separate out the dogma.  This needing to feel special, we start judging.  I’ll speak for me.  This very much resonates with me.

This awareness of special.  I am not special.  I am special in the everyones special kind of a way.  But when I need to feel more special.  To sound better.  To sound best.  To sound the wisest.  Pontificate the bestest.  And I am working hard to not be that.  And if I’m not sharing then I’m judging those who are sharing.

As I’m interviewing speakers and they are enjoying it and having fun and enjoying the project.  And the “Tools For A Good Life Summit” can be a source of good and help and healing and growth and transformation for people.  There is this source of pridefulness that can set in.

If I can somehow see that we are all doing it.  How do I see that this is not me but that this is all of us creating that.  Because a glimpse of that is very powerful.

A couple of the speaker interactions is we were helping each other.  Growth moments.  And it was very powerful.  One of the speakers said this was very powerful and not matter what you have helped me.  

As i’ve been interview for the podcast the illusion of separation has been dissipating.  The humanness has be shining through.  The love that I am having for people, this brood love, not this Hollywood love, but a god love.  Now as i’ve interviewed 7 or 8 people for the summit, I am growing so much.  (Heads up I actually have 20 interviews done for the summit!)  And the illusion that it’s for other people, perhaps it’s just for me :).  Not selfishly but for my own growth trajectory.  

JB Scheduled her interview.  Robert Drysdale, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) world champion set up his interview.  

I have friends in their 40’s who have been turning to BJJ and it has been powerful for them.  

Michael Sandler had said yes (but we were never able to confirm).  

I very much have been…  It’s like dating or sales when you get started, I can have so much vested in the response from some person.  And waiting for responses from over here.  I find it is better to keep the actions going.  Action creates action.  As along as I put the action in results will come and I don’t know where from :).

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“The Goal Of Specialness”.  Our need to feel special is the source of our discontentment.  How does one stop comparing?  Will I ever stop looking for a girl?  Will I ever stop looking for “the job?”  “…to be released from limits”

Episode notes:

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I’m still reading A Course In Miracles diligently.  Friday and Saturday mornings I miss them…  Usually I would tackle later in the day…  But since I’m busy w the summit I’m not.  

I’m still heavy in the ACIM and grooving on it.  And I’m currently in this chapter right now called “The Goal Of Specialness”.  And effectively the more we try to feel special the more brain damage we feel.  That is the source of our pain.  Mischa wants to be special.  Mischa wants to be different, from you.  Perhaps better than, or seem better then, or loved more.  Or have a GF that thinks I’m specialer.  All these different ways to say it.  And that’s a massive source of our discontentment.

One of the signs of that is that I compare myself to others.  If I’m comparing myself to others it’s because I want to be special or not as un-special.

All the notes I wrote today:

I messed up on episodes, I actually posted the same episode twice in a row.  I was so tired when I was working them up I posted them twice.  IN the moment it felt mission critical and like I totally messed up.  I’m going to loose listeners and all this stuff.  “Will I be worried about this, or will it even make a difference in two months?  Two years?  Will it matter?  And more over will I care?  And I love that thought!  It just dropped in and gave me freedom.  It does not matter and I had total freedom from there!  Oh my gosh…  I’m worrying about nothing, literally!

The “Goal of Specialness” ACIM.

How can one stop comparing?  That’s an interesting thought.  I have lot’s of opportunities to compare myself…  Compare my thoughts to what they’re saying.  Which can be so warped!  How do I stop comparing?  I do it, but how?  There’s some prayers in there… “We are all gods children.”  

Will I ever stop looking for a girl?  Whenever I’m on a meeting?  Or out and about?  Being single…  Even if it’s not on my radar, inevitably if I see somebody that is attractive to me I’m like “Is that the one?” and I start sizing her up.  Will I ever stop sizing up the opposite sex?

Will I ever stop looking for “The Job”.  Or that thing to do.  Even when I was having success.

It will find me.  The job or the girl.

…and “to be released from limits.”  I associate egoically what being released from limits means.  Or I attach that to what my ego associates as limits.  Notoriety, adoration, money, power, traditional success.  Looks Likes Follows. Influence.  When I am released from limits I am gonna be released to get all the egoic goodies.  Not to spiritually soar with god.  Or to be completely 100% free of all the egoic limitations.  To be one with god?  NO!  So I can get all the shiny objects.

Habits to not feel special.  Or how about “specialer than you”.  Can I see, whomever I look at, everyone, as a shining light of god?  What if they were, or are, a shining light of god.  What if everybody I looked at and saw and came across was a shining light of god?  No matter who they came into my awareness…   Whether news, Facebook feeds, insta feeds, walking down the road, zoom meetings.  What if truly, everyone I saw, was a shining light of god.  I freeking love that thought.   If I could put that into my awareness more and more and more. Perhaps I will be free and released from my egoic limits.

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The shenanigans of trying to schedule one of the speakers reminds me of a Seinfeld episode, a total comedy of errors.  Does she even realize she’s speaking on a summit?

Episode notes:

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One of the funniest things that’s happened along the way happened today.  I invited a speaker to the summit…  And I have been communicating with a speakers assistant...  The back and forth back and forth.   So JB Owen was the speaker prospect and I have a 20 minute meet and great Zoom call w her.  So she could suss out if I’m a worthy cause.  

JB helps people get their stories on paper and publishes them…  Writing can be obviously very cathartic.  So I invited JB to speak on writing as a tool for a good life.  A cathartic cool.  And she’s very busy helping people publish books…

My follow up skills paid off…  She believes in the mission.  And I had scheduled the “pre call”

So I’m chatting with JB today and writing being cathartic…  And she keeps inadvertently saying podcast.  And I’ve got all these great people that can speak on your podcast like I am…

So she might have been thinking podcast episodes and I’m thinking summit speaker interviews.  And it was like a Seinfeld episode, a total comedy of errors.  So I still don’t know, I think her assistant knows, if we are talking podcast or summit!  LOL.  I think her assistant knows…

But I was frustrated because I wasn’t sure wether to update the speaker landing page with another confirmed speaker…  And obviously I’m very excited to have JB on board as a speaker.  One because I think she is amazing and two and time your follow up skills pay off it feels amazing.

I’m just going to act as if.  I am just going to act as if she’s talking about the summit and me too.  And so I’ll try to reconfirm it with the assistant…  When the interview gets scheduled I’m just going to assume it’s for the summit…

But they have not scheduled the interview yet so all this worrying could be for not.  

Amy Tran did confirm.  As did a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu guy, Robert Drysdale.   But again this is how it works “Don’t spend the money until the check is cashed.”  So JB’s on board, Amy’s on board, Robert’s on board, but until it’s scheduled and they’ve recorded you never know.  I totally could be pulling the trigger on this telling you so soon.  But I’m willing to come back on and tell you that perhaps they weren’t able to come through.

(Spoiler alert!  Amy Tran and Robert Drysdale did confirm and complete the summit interviews!  JB Owen, well, she was not able to complete the interview after various scheduling shenanigans and 12th hour cancelations!  But JB and I did have fun in our attempt to complete the interview.)

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At the height of my marriage I was successful in sales, we had two kids, we fought about getting a dog…  and I was arrogant as can be.  I came home one day and there was that damn dog!  It turns out if I could have been as nice to my wife as I was to that damn dog I might still be married today.

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This episode is about “if I treated my wife as nice as I treated that damn dog”.  I fought with my wife about getting a dog for ever.  Dawn is my x-wife and the boys mom and we get to laugh about these stories.  

At the height of my marriage to Dawn I was successful in the mortgage business, I was making good money for the family…  I was in my mid to late 30’s and I had a good run.  Had a couple a young kids and I was arrogant, she was a stay at home mom, and I was like “I’m working, I’m producing, I’m bringing home the bacon…” And in hindsight I should be afforded certain “dickness” or “Assholeness”.  I was surfing a lot. I could be frustrated when I came home.

One time I was asked to grab something from the grocery store on the way home.  Which was sort of on the way by the way.  And I remember, I lost my shit…  I had an arrogant attitude.  It was going to be out so much to go get hamburger buns and lettuce…  

“Machy” was the dogs name.  A little Yorky.  Little bastard pissed all over the house.  We started calling him the crotch warmer 2000 cause he would sleep between my legs and keep my crotch warm.  God I loved that dog!

Anyway, I come home one day and there’s that damn dog.  She just went ahead and got it…  I was always prioritizing my stuff.  God forgive I brought her some flowers now and then…  I was always scared if I bought her flowers it would escalate.  So lame.

God I was a pain in the ass I had lots of opinions and was real snappy.  I was just what you’d expect from an A type sales guy who demanded respect.  This might sound worse than it is.

I just remember that at that time I’d come home and give that dog so much love and be so forgiving of that little dog.  And in spite of the dogs little hiccups it had I loved and treated that dog very good.  

I had this total moment of awareness, “OMG, if I could just be as nice to Dawn as I was to that damn dog, I might still be married today.”

…I talked about it once, and people thought it was really funny and a lot of successful husbands could relate.  They were like “Holy crap, I perhaps treat my pets better than I do my family.”.

Holy crap - I’ve come a long way people, I have come a long way.

I would encourage you - If you are lucky enough to have a wife, and you’re luck enough to have a pet. Please treat your significant other as well as you treat your pet.

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“Do the dishes for God”.  That’s what somebody told me back on the day.  When my life was on the line in early recovery…  And I thought doing the dishes at my job was beneath me.  And arrogance was seeping out of my pores…  Love you John B you helped saved my life.

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“Do the dishes for God”.  That’s what I had a sponsor tell me back in the day.  Way way back in the day.  A spiritual mentor, a sober coach, a sponsor.  That’s what the call “those things” in recovery.  I have been sober since I was 17 years and 9 months old.  The last day of high school I was on an airplane headed to a treatment center.  The judge had given me the option of, 6 months in jail, or go to treatment and get sober.  Thanks to a confluence circumstances I was inspired for sobriety.  And it has stuck one day at a time.

My first couple years of sobriety were kind of unruly.  For the 12 steps to be affective you must take the 12 steps.  The first couple of years I decided to hold meetings hostage with my complaining and crying and arrogant youthful attitude.  

I came to a point at a couple years of embrace the 12 step methodology, get a sponsor…  Just so you know I do not represent the 12 steps.  I could flame out and then people would be like “recovery doesn’t work!”

…I was coming unglued and my sponsor John B…  who was the night cook at the “Elkhorn Cafe”.  And John was a calm dude.  and I wanted that.  So I asked John to be my sponsor and my life changed that day.  And he encouraged me to do the dishes for God.

I had this habit of at the time, I was arrogant, and whenever I got a job I wanted to be boss, CEO, whatever…  I did not like paying my dues…

So I worked at “Mountain High Pizza Pie” and I was tasked with doing the dishes and I was not happy about it. “Don’t you know who I am?”

I didn’t think I could survive if I had to continue to do the dishes from time to time at my job because it was beneath me and I thought I should be the manager.   And he said, “Perhaps you should do the dishes for God.”  “Do the dishes for God, do a good job for God.”  And it worked.  I was like “yes, I can do that.”  Do it for something greater than myself.  

And this process of the summit reminds of that…  and when Kent said “stop being selfish, you are just worried about yourself, you can help so many people!”  And I was reminded of yes, do what you are doing for a higher order perhaps, if you don like the word “God”…  To give back…

And for whatever reason the other day, I as was looking for motivation to continue on, I was reminded of John B, “do the dishes for God.”  And from then on I got much better and paying your dues, and working, and doing it for the good of the restaurant, the good of the cause…  Have I said that enough.

God bless John B…  he was so patient, he would just…  I don’t even know what happened to him.  The dude saved my life literally…  We would read the “Big Book”.  So much good content in there.  And how he modeled recovery for me is how I still to this day 33 years later (cause it took me a couple years to getting around to asking for help) I still use that foundation that he gave me.  

So John B, who used to work at the “Elk Horn Cafe” if you are listening…  “I love you”.  Thank you for saving my life, for giving me the time you gave me.  For teaching me accountability.  

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On this day my 20 year old told me he got a girl pregnant!  He actually didn’t he just wanted to soften me up for some other news.  And we get to hang out and talk for 3 hours because he wanted to hear my life story back when I was his age…   And he sure did listen!  It was kind of a wild day I must say.

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Hat Hair - My hair literally looks like a hat…  

I was on a 3 hour Russell Brunson call… I’m not happy with Russel Brunson right now.  “Damn you Russell Brunson!  Some super exciting training he was doing live for us on the 2CCX…  I got baited into it…  Russell!  Had plans to do all this work today…  but then a 3 hour training… argh.

Purpose of this episode…  What happened today, yesterday.

My 20 yr old son cooper came over to get his important mail today…  These are the times I get to see him these days.  “Dad, I’ve got something to tell you.”  “I got a girl pregnant!”  

What!  “No I didn’t, but I’m moving to Los Angeles with some friends…”

My other son is 18…  I feel like I’m full heading into empty nest mode.

We hung out for three hours, and talked.  I got to tell him I’m proud of him…  The little guy.  He’s 6’2”.

I want to go strike out and try some new stuff…  He wanted to hear about my times when I was his age…

Well I got sober, I was a pro snowboarder, I was in the inaugural Swatch World Snowboarding championships!  But I had a brittle body so I kept hurting my ankle…  

So off to fly airplanes and go to college…  I almost killed myself multiple times being a dumb ass in an airplane…  Yeah I’m gonna die if I do this or I’m going to be bored out of my brain flying a bus around.  You’re just flying a bus and it’s more boring then that.

Than off to Bozeman for the rest of my “5 yr degree”.  Where I opened a dance club w my buddy Eric.  Oh I had a card room to…  Before I quit gambling in 1995 because I was a gambling addict as well.  I was a professional gambler.  I played in the World Series of Poker in 1994.  I won a seat into the Texas Hold ‘em main table.  

Then I graduated w/my finance degree.  “How the hell did you end up in San Francisco”…

I wanted to move to the big city :).  I got an opportunity to house sit in the San Francisco bay area…

By a confluence of circumstances I became a DJ…

“What ever happened to Eric?”   Eric died of AIDS.  Mis you Eric, Love you Eric…

Cooper listened to it all.  ‘OMG you’ve had such an amazing life”.  He was captivated.  “I want some of that, I want to go try new things.”

It was a very sweet moment!  

I felt like if I did not tell that story it would have slipped through the cracks…

I got to tell him I loved him and am proud of him.

OMG I was broke in my mid twenties trying businesses and somehow I made it all happen.  So I was scared for him for a moment…

All young people move out and figure it out.

There were a bunch of tears, and I meditated a bunch of times to let those emotions flow through.  Beautiful, rich, melancholy, LIFE…  Just feeling it :).

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