It’s a 4 hour time difference with Los Angeles; I forgot. So when I said I’d meet First Angel Network’s Ross Finlay for breakfast at 7:30am I hadn’t realized that would feel like 3:30am for me. But a friendly face early in the morning is a benefit in itself as I begin a 8-day visit to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
We’re traveling to a FAN meeting in Moncton, New Brunswick tomorrow then a repeat session here in Halifax on Thursday. Each night I’ll speak about my recent travels to Moscow. In the meantime I’ll rent a bicycle for a week starting at noon today and when I’m not at an angel meeting I’ll be touring the gorgeous Nova Scotia coastline by bike.
Ross and I talked of many things this morning and I was surprised to hear him say that NACO past-President W. Daniel Mothersill died on Friday, of a heart attack.
We told stories of Dan; how Ross and I were both in Madrid at EBAN’s Annual Congress — Dan was on a panel discussion I was moderating and he brought a technique I’ve used many times since: to stand. The idea being that by having the panelists stand, versus sit in comfy chairs, we’d be more interactive, better able to interrupt each other, and that the audience would appreciate this more dynamic presentation. I remember the day itself; we didn’t go on until late in the afternoon and it had been a day of long speeches by Madrid politicians. We sparked up the whole room with whatever topic we were covering, and according to Dan and fellow panelist Permjot Valia, we rescued the conference.
Of course, Dan was a guest on the Show here and when I return I’ll dust off that interview and republish it.
