07/14/2010: "On Offer Now"

This week a lineup of amazing speakers, performers and attendees are gathering at TED Global in Oxford, England and I would give my left arm to be there. Fortunately it will all show up on TED.com eventually so I will patiently wait while surfing the archives for TED talks past.

Equally exciting is poet David Whyte's two weeks of hiking, traditional music, storytelling and poetry on the remote west coast of Ireland. It's what Steven Spielberg is doing this summer. It's what I've been wanting to do for years.

My friend, comedian Shelley Marshall, is opening for Puppetry of the Penis in New York city. I'm sure that's a sight to be seen.

And I wonder with all this on offer, what on earth am I still doing here?

Three morals in this story,

1. TED is a summer camp for geniuses.
2. You can make a good living from poetry.
3. Laughter is good for the soul.

Yours with creativity and imagination,
Darlene