song: bass nectar
(voice sample, I think, is Thich Nhat Hanh)

my nephew (20 months) and I got our groove on this afternoon!

“How did you get the name Halcyon?”

“How do you deal with criticism?”

*The page I read from is here.

At the end of HugNation on New Year’s Day, I told a story from my travels to Turkey 15 years ago.
It’s about 8 min. Click “more” to see a picture from the adventure.

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I pre-recorded the “Tao Buffet” story for yesterday. I did it for several reasons: 1) We’ve had some tech troubles last few weeks with audio and 2) They are doing construction at my apartment, so I wasnt sure what the background noise would be like.

And it worked out pretty well for the live show!

The story, “Don’t Pester The Monks”

And the Live Hug, too:

My Thanksgiving was AMAZING! So much so, that it inspired THREE videos from the day…

To start the day, before I went to my folks to eat, I recorded some thoughts about one of my favorite holidays:

But one tradition that did not change was our annual trip to the beach. We try to time dinner so that we can be at the beach at low tide.
Every Thanksgiving and Xmas: Put the bird in, head to the beach, come back, clean up..and eat.

Today at the Beach we saw tons of starfish - purple and orange like the color of popsicles.

But then I saw a true tide pool treasure, the rarest of the rare, the “black orchid” of the barnacles…
An Octopus!

I didn’t want to pry it out of it’s hiding place, but I wanted to meet him, all the same.

So I held out my fingers to see if he would grab on to me.

HE DID!

I broke out the iron and tried to work out the wrinkles in my previous green screen attempts…

My roomie and I dressed up and went to comic con. We took the coaster downtown and had a blast! (inspired by our frineds at PulpSecret.com)

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You may know that while I have a mind that thinks up lots of crazy ideas, I lack the patience to learn many skills.

So occasionally I take on projects without any real clue of what I’m doing.

With that, I present you with another installment of “Crafting withOUT skill” This episode: The Comfortable Platform Shoes Experiment

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