11/14/10 Talking shop

My friend is so enthusiastically pro-writing, and pro-personhood, and pro-get your groove on and be your best self. She's a personal coach, and she just can't help herself, the bug bites her in every conversation. So there we are talking about writing and editing and doing stuff with writing and where to publish and what classes she's taking and teaching next. And it's just so inspiring to talk shop with someone with their hair bobbed and tea-tinted just so, and to sip actual tea and talk blobs about blogs and coffee and more tea and the thousands of books on writing and spirituality that are strewn around her house as if she herself is the holy shrine and they, the books, are pilgrims come to see her. Hey, talking shop means you invite all the best stuff to make a pilgrimage to see you. And it's serendipitously, synchronistically, synesthestically sympatico.