Because of the nature of some of the industries we’ve been working in lately, I haven’t had many opportunities to engage our FABulous Curiosity Team over the last couple of months… and I’ve missed them. So this week I decided to send them a quick question - just to let them know I haven’t forgotten them. I just asked them to tell me the coolest thing they’d seen all week… whatever that meant to each of them. I wanted to share it because I think it’s a wonderful representation of the diversity of the Curiosity Team… and also makes the point that there are an awful lot of ways for people to feel fascinated, inspired, rewarded or engaged.

• Here’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all day (and it’s an ad). It might not be funny if you’re not a triathlete though.
• I spent the weekend at the NY State convention of my philanthropic sisterhood, P.E.O., so I suppose the coolest thing I saw was a room full of women aged 19 to 86, all united toward one goal: providing educational opportunities for women in need.
• The coolest thing I saw this past week off the top of my head, was my rental car last night… got in at 1 am (3 hours late) and the lady grinned at me and said, “How ’bout a Mustang convertible?” SWEET!!
• Probably the most interesting thing I’ve seen this week is downtown Delray Beach. I went there Friday night for dinner and drinks, and then Saturday afternoon to look at shops and galleries, and have a drink. It’s amazing that this area has been only six miles from my house and I haven’t been there yet. It’s downtown Greenville mixed with a beachy, south FL feel. Great art galleries!
• Other than going to a wedding in SC, I think the most interesting thing was being diverted from the Highway in KY due to a major wreck. I started following the signs for 25 and next thing I knew I was in Corbin, KY and spent 3 hours getting to London, KY… only 15 miles away! Go figure. I just kept thinking about the show I worked on that was based in those towns and thought how funny it was I was driving through. And I was trying to picture “what it looked like in that time.” I also saw a gun shop called BACON GUN SHOP and thought of my buddy Karl and that I needed to get a picture of it for his website.
• I guess it’s been a relatively dull week, but the most fun I had was going to my 6-year-old neice’s ballet recital which consisted mostly of 3-6-year-olds plus a few groups of teenagers. The little ones were so cute. They wore big poofy ballet dresses and looked very much like ballerinas, but didn’t really know the steps to their dances. Mostly they turned their heads to the side of the stage where their teacher was in the wings doing the dance for them. It was very cute. But I couldn’t believe how fancy the costumes were for such a young group. The older kids were better. They did one dance set to a song about flooding in Louisiana, and in the background there was a projection of the devastation from Katrina. It was strangely moving.
• We had a reporter tell us that he was not interested in doing a story about how our business model of compensating agents based on client happiness has created all happy clients in the 2 years of our operation because we “have not had any unhappy clients.”
• Nike Plus (the Nike iPod partnership)
• Sooo one sided from a parent, but one cool thing I witnessed yesterday was my daughter (who is 4 and LOVES to wear this soft, cotton, full circle, handmade purple dress ALL the time and pretends she is a princess) was out in the neighborhood wearing it while playing soccer ball - better than the older boys around her!  I thought, “now THAT would be a good photo for a Nike Girl’s Ad.”
• I saw a 1946 Ford pickup at Seymore’s BP. It was the most beautiful thing I’d seen in a while. It was in the garage with the hood up. A real, flat head engine. What stuck with me, though, was that the cab was detailed by hand with enamel paint. That was standard back then; human contact with the product - “by hand.”
• The most interesting thing I’ve seen in the last week is a 62-ton hovercraft get lifted off the dock and set into the marina in Seattle.
• Sunset over the water on the northwest side of Orcas Island.
• A world-class horn player (William VerMerulen from Rice University) playing a bit of classical music on a length of garden hose with a funnel on the end!!!
• The thermometer outside my bedroom window - 2 pm and the temperature is 68 degrees!
• Watching the faces of my children at awards day when they won something. One got the Imaginitive Writing Award and one got the Inquisitive Mind Award. It is awesome to watch them as they take no the same traits as their truly imaginitive and inquisitive father. It is definitely in the genes. Even at age 6, I see the power of it!
• I would have to say the cooles thing I noticed this week was a tree. I took the dog for a walk on a slightly different route and noticed a really fantastic Japanese maple. I’ve driven that way many times but rarely walk it, and the tree just floored me. Very nice.
• Also some very cool, very old tombstones in the cemetery up the street. I use the cemetery any time I need the name for a character in my writing, and it never lets me down. This time I wandered into an older section and there were a lot of Oregon Trail pioneers buried there.
• Rick doing a round off in an Elvis costume! That tops everything!

Myself… the coolest thing I saw this week was the office calendar saying that I am on vacation next week! So everyone have a great week! And if you’re interested in joining the Curiosity Team, feel free to email me at curiosityteam@brainsonfire.com.

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