TL;DR: Thank you to ALLLLLL the magnificent people who helped make Saturday's debut of my new keynote, "The Tempest, the Train Porter, and the Temple of Trees, " both a big success and an abundant delight of a day.
Thank you to
@shannonmturner of
@story_muse for bringing the Teapot to this Tempest, with your wise and wonderful stories of love, camp, and chickens.
Thank you to
@thesupermarket.atl (and especially Jane) for hosting us so well in one of Atlanta's coolest event venues and gallery spaces.
Thank you to Lindsey Duvall of The Golden Solution for orchestrating this whole event so magnificently, allowing me to focus on my talk and my guests while you kept everything running smoothly.
Thank you to
@seecarelock , both my self-appointed stylist (b/c we all know I needed one) and the event stage manager.
Thank you to MC
@hollystevenson777 , the hostess with the mostess and also my rehearsal coach through many, many hours of walks in the park.
Thank you to Brent Dey for making a multi-camera record of the event and capturing audience reactions afterward.
Thank you to
@vandellous of the
@vibrancecentre , who coached me on voice and presentation these past three months and helped me commit to my own poetic aesthetic when I was feeling the pressure to make things more prosaic.
Thank you to Julie Fogh and Casey Erin Clark of Vital Voice, who helped me find my vital speaking voice and believe I had a voice worth being heard.
And thank you to all of YOU who came out to share the day with me.
I'm blessed beyond measure to have you all in my life.
Let's do it again soon, yeah?
