Today the journey continues. In less than five hours I will be off to L.A. to see friends, speak and teach. I will bring nothing more than a carry on with one hundred books waiting at my destination. Fear of the unknown, of failure would be a normal response. But I have given up fear. It serves no positive good. If you can embrace your utter destruction, mortality, then the idea of little failures holds no power.

A la Monty Python, I like to imagine a cartoonish sky opening up. The clouds part and a massive shoe comes down and crushes me flat. The ultimate end comes with an ironic smile and petty fears mean nothing.

It's all in how we interpret things.