The 100

"Can We Talk?"

Have you ever had that feeling that the resonant sound of noise and people who have visited your home is echoing in the stillness after they've gone? A burst of laughter or a question still hanging in the air? Turning sharply in response to a noise that isn't there but the energy of it is almost palpable? Hearing noises that I've never heard before simply because there was so much going on all the time. Letting the music play or the television chatter in another room to avoid listening or thinking too hard? 

Do you know in your heart that that sweet, charming little old man who occupied your house before you, is sitting in the garden enjoying the rhododendron blooms?  Calling to you perhaps to join him on a summer evening. I'm not crazy. It happens all the time. It doesn't frighten me, startles me sometimes. I wonder does it happen to you - this sudden space to hear your own breathing in the wee hours of the morning when the world is sleeping? 

But I'm also asking if you might consider participating in a sort of collective wisdom. It strikes me that instead of asking myself into the silence I could ask you. I think I'll call you, 
"The 100" What? A Nest4One Community of Practice if you will. Imagine we have the time to set beach chairs out in the sand and laugh at ourselves. 

I think there's stuff to share. I think I wouldn't be the only beneficiary of your wisdom. I just want counsel first from the people I know and trust. Who will give me the skinny on what to expect and insight into what to avoid. Not about the noises (well maybe). About the little everyday things that I thought would be easier 4 one, but are not. The myriad of things I suddenly know absolutely nothing about! 

So how would it work? Well, here's what I'm thinking. I'll float an idea or a question via email hoping to get your thoughts, ideas, feedback, you name it. Then I'll craft stories and publish the collective thoughts here. You'll get the credit (unless you don't want it) but it might just be the seed of a story and a dialogue, a conversation from a good idea we've shared. 

Question is, do you want to be, are you willing to be part of the 100? Expect that email in the next day or so. It will look something like this...or that and thank you. I'm really fortunate to have so many creative and interesting people in my life.