Blogging from the Acela … headed down to NY to spend two days with my Lever House buddies.

To be alive at all involves some risk. – Harold MacMillan

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. – Cynthia Heimel

What a desire! To live in peace with that word: Myself. – Syliva Ashton-Warner

So whatever you want to do, just do it … making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential. – Gloria Steinem

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. – Herman Miller

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Thinking about risk, and decisions, and the choices we make that change the direction of our lives. Matt has to make a call here, and I am trying to be a reasonable sounding board without being too stubborn about it. The choice he makes has big ramifications for me as well.

The train is passing through Connecticut, gorgeous sunset over water vistas on each side … ahhh. This is a nice way to travel.