This post was written by Diggy of Upgrade Reality. Be sure to check out his blog if you haven’t before. Diggy is also one of the 44 Creative and Adventurous Bloggers You Should Know.
“You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
I heard this saying way back in the early grades of school and always saw it as some sort of riddle that I knew had to have a solution. The only way to have your cake and eat it is to clone your cake and eat the clone while keeping the original in the fridge.
What kind of restaurant would list “respect, honesty and transparency” as key values on their website?
The kind of restaurant I would want to invest in, it turns out.
I just love serendipity (the effect, not the movie that my wife made me watch recently). Even better, I love serendipity when it happens at the intersection of multiple things I hold dear.
That’s what happened with a new restaurant called Gather that opens this week in the new David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley.
How many of us will be lucky enough to really live out our dreams? When is it time to “be realistic” or settle for a “regular life?” These are questions that Ashley Ambirge’s guest post from earlier this week might have you thinking.
The question of whether you should chase your dreams (or continue to chase them) to me is mostly a personal question. You should examine what is important to you in life and what path will make you happiest. For some reason however, people like to argue against following dreams by invoking macro-economic points.
For example, someone (anonymously) commented on Ashley’s post about how “the world needs trash collectors too.” I’ve heard sentiments like this frequently before. The same commenter asked, “how many musicians, artists, restaurant owners … athletes, doctors, lawyers, socialites, movie stars, etc. etc. etc. does the world need?”
The following is a guest post by Ashley Ambirge. Read more by Ashley at her blog The Middle Finger Project or follow Ashley on Twitter.
They’re out there. You can spot them in every city, every town, every neighborhood. They can take the shape of any human being, but are known to wear a scowl, a bad attitude and dirt-smeared, oversized khaki-colored overalls.
Despite their questionable demeanor, they weave their way into your life, usually by way of stealth maneuver tactics. Most often you will not recognize them until it’s too late, but all suspects should be considered armed and dangerous.
In worse case scenarios, they will even land in your yard, chug sugar water and proceed to body snatch a member of your family, friend or significant other, straight up Men In Black style.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
It’s official! Jessalyn and I are headed back to Mexico for 2-3 months starting on January 15th. We’ll be living in a little town near Manzanillo on the Pacific coast that we fell in love with last year. We can’t wait.
