A Quick Hello From Frozen CT!

Happy Early Holiday Season!

Just got in from a 5 mile walk with the pooches--it's COLD today. It was fun watching Fugee try to drink from the attached water bowl.

Just a quick head's up to keep you apprised of my boomerang life. I've been offered a job managing the Metro Hotel http://www.metrohotelsf.com in San Francisco, on Divisadero near Haight Street. The job was too good to turn down--owned by wonderful friends, funky, a cross between Lonely Planet and Tales of the City 2006. I'm looking forward to this new adventure, and heck, my underwear, furniture and dog would just LOVE another cross-country New Year drive--this time perhaps with SNOW!! Tentative leave date is Jan 1st--a beautiful way to start the year.

If you'd like to find out the full backstory as to my time in CT and the steps up to my current decision and life-direction, check out my blog http://hermesbrainbelch.blogspot.com sometime later today or tomorrow. See, the holidays REALLY are about mercy--I saved you the inbox clutter of having to read an email you may or may not care about! I'm letting you pull the information as opposed to pushing it at you--very Web 2.0--non?

I'm going to share a quote which really rings true with me. I'm sure some of you think, "Why the heck does Craig always wax philosophic and seem so ready to dole out advice when his life is more shambles than most?"

Here's the quote, from Wei Wu Wei: "...give any information you have garnered to a fellow traveler along the Way. Why? Because the same information would have helped the person who compiled it if it had been given to him, and that is why he compiled it --- and that is why it should be offered to others along the Way."

See? Not only is Christmas about mercy, it's about sharing.

Thanks for sharing my life.

Peace.
Craig
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"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more"
~ Dr. Seuss