Venture Boldly
The Velvet Moonglow Room, New York, 1960. The place is packed because the club promoter spread brochures about my appearance, and I have never been in this club until tonight. I feel so much gratitude that even though this is my first day performing here, my name travels all over the world. Wherever I go, … Read more
I was reading Vernon Howard’s A Treasury of Trueness when I hit this line: “Instead of becoming a little quiet, become totally quiet and see if the quietness is your friend or your foe.” I stopped there because I been practicing quietness in my head. A little quietness is just being present. Totally quiet means … Read more
He is the reason a binder of surfing postcards exists in my house at all. The binder is green, pebbled like old leather, with black corners and a black spine. Down the middle runs a ZSURF panel, a red Z over a wave with a surfer cut into it, and under that a monkey in … Read more
