Last night an old friend and a new one stopped by for a few hours en route to their next adventure. The wonderful conversation reminded me of how much I miss hanging out with the guys from Colorado. Doug has been a mentor and inspiration for me since we first met. He has an amazing ability to distill complex ideas into a few simple sentences and always points me to some interesting new uses of technology. Talking to him and Rebecca all evening I felt a certain sense of ease that I don't often feel in dealing with a lot of people in the midwest.
We talked about a broad range of things, from music to movies to art to politics to family to dreams and it seems we just barely scratched the surface. But as usual Doug has inspired me to be more active in my intellectual pursuits. He would make a good cult leader, and I mean that in a nice way. He's charismatic, grounded, and conveys a sense that everything you are saying is important. Mae and I are working on several different medium term plans that will probably take us out of the midwest and one of those paths could well end up where I would be able to work with him again, which would just be great.
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Your wife, Mutha Mae commented, on July 8, 2008 at 12:37 p.m.:
I think we could find people like Doug here, it would just take some searching. And as I told Doug last night, it might be hard to convince such a person to hang out with us. I find people here tend to stick with their own kind. Not everyone. There are always exceptions. I just find that making friends here is a bit of a challenge because people have known their friends forever and it's hard to break into those groups.