Krankin March 2, 2012
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I just now found out that a dear friend passed … 2.5 years ago … and I didn’t even know it till now.
How does that happen?
This morning I’m listening to some music he gave me… and just about to write him a note of thanks, was hunting for his email (since I just changed computers) when I found this …
Bummer. Major. I’m feeling it.
Somehow I thought that he was always with me. That I could call and share anytime. That next time he was up in Berkeley he’d bring me those amazingly fragrant lilies for the dining room and complain that my piano was out of tune.
Conversations we’d had and trusting he was there kept me going through the sometimes very hard times of my first year in acting school. What he told me about being an artist and the encouragement he was for me in that world are immeasurable. Who he was as a dedicated artist. What he said to me about my gift. How he sang my poetry back to me and asked for more. How could I have lost touch with him in life so completely? Damn.
Too many dear ones, too far afield. And my days are too filled with “busyness” to be with all those whose memories pass my thoughts daily.
The world is suddenly much too large.
And the moments of connection much too infrequent.
I need a village.
Oh, the song I’m listening to … over and over and over again for the last 3 hours? “People Get Ready”
2/17 TechCrunch 5: Naked Conversations and the Impact of a Life February 20, 2006
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Once a Geek … : It’s been so, so long since I was at a real geek party; last Saturday’s TechCrunch was definitely it. Took me back … damn, I love those brilliant, edgy propeller heads! But I’m sooo out of circulation!!
My date was Doug Engelbart and NextNow’s Bill Daul played chauffeur. We met up with other NextNowers Betsy Burroughs and Jeff Saperstein who brought along Dr. Frederic Jallat from the European School of Management. Other than these, of the 400 or so guests, I’d previously met only Scoble the elder and the younger, and so had the pleasure of meeting Shel Israel and Scoble the grand elder that night. Sweet. (more…)
EVENT: (Fri 1/20 6:30PM Pacific) Collective IQ with Doug Englebart January 19, 2006
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Doug Englebart an innovator at the source of the computing revolution is remarkable man and all about leveraging leverage, improving improvement networks and much more.
in person event in Palo Alto: http://www.futuresalon.org/
online event at Second Life: http://slfuturesalon.blogs.com/second_life_future_salon/2006/01/doug_engelbart_.html#comment-12954735
“Imagine what we can do together”. – DE
