Investing in Karma

So plans, sometimes they change. Like for example you might be planning on spending 2 and half months luxuriating at the South Pole, shoveling snow and moving heavy things from one place to another, unicycling around the world in your spare time, when…boom, the next thing you know you are living in a tiki hit on Venice beach, selling smoothies to tourists from a bicycle powered blender. I mean, the smoothies from the blender, the tourists, they are from all over tarnation. This is all purely hypothetical of course.

Except for the part where the south pole gig fell through. That is real. And the bike powered blender, that hasn’t happened yet either, although I do have a blender and a bike and a hankering for some smoothies…

Oh yeah, the title “Investing in Karma.” Well, I went out to visit Risa in California a week ago, and it was while there I learned about the failure to launch of the South Pole plan, so I began casting about for ideas for what to do with myself. Among them, learn how to sail, learn to play guitar and play for change on a street corner, build a bike powered blender and sell smoothies and biscotti to tourists, unicycle and juggle and spin fire for tips, and go live with Risa in California. Can you guess which I chose? If you guessed all of ‘em, you’re a winner! So I spent an afternoon watching street performers in LA, tipping generously and learning as much as possible from them, and the many cops, hustlers, vendors, etc that I talked to. That was the investing in karma part.

Don’t worry, I’m still planning on starting nursing school in January, this is all just in the meantime. Now I just gotta sell my house and learn to play the guitar.