Last week I posted about two colleagues, Kristin Pedimonti and Rives Collins, whose "shared" birthdays were yesterday, September 3rd. I mentioned someone ELSE whose birthday was the 3rd too, but no one e-mailed me to guess that it was ME! Oh well, I guess I will have to come up with another contest to see who might win an hour of coaching with me.

Now here's a small tidbit/anecdote from my life. One more person I knew had their birthday on September 3rd. When I moved to Los Angeles many years ago, I stayed with one of my best friends there. He introduced me to one of his friends named Grayson. We discovered that Grayson and I were born on September 3rd, exactly ten years apart! We celebrated many birthdays together until he passed away, several years ago.

It was just a few years ago, on one of my many visits back to L.A., that Grayson mentioned that he had discovered something I might be interested in - Storytelling. I pooh-poohed it off as "reading to kids" and although he tried to get through to me, for some strange reason, I totally dismissed it. It wasn't until a few years later that I "found" storytelling myself here in Phoenix. And then, just after Grayson's death, I discovered, at the NSN Conference in L.A., that Michael D. McCarty had known Grayson! We spent some time sharing stories and memories about Grayson. What a strange world! 

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