I'm just leaving to pick up a friend.  We're carpooling over to Sausalito, where we have been attending author, Angeles Arrien's seminar, The Second Half of Life--Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom, based on her book of the same name.  She is my all-time favorite teacher, and I never fail to be inspired by her.  I'll say more later.

Last Thursday I went to the matinee of An Inconvenient Truth, the movie on global warming made by Al Gore.  It's fantastic, and I'm hoping everyone will see it.  I was afraid I'd been too depressed afterwards, but it actually made me feel better.  Why?  I'll say more later because I have to go pick up Terry Mandel now, but this week all our Bay area temperature (normally very cool and pleasant this time of year)have hit all-time record highs.  At the seminar yesterday it was 108 F in the area.  Incredible.

 It's all fitting together.  There's some reason I went to the movie and this seminar in the same week the heat got turned up.