Dear friends & colleagues, Greetings Wexford! Many of you I chat with frequently, while others I haven't heard from in years. Some of you may not even know about my book, which will begin distribution next week. For those, the title is "The Zen of Global Transformation", and it was written under a pen name (Nasrudin O'Shah) whose symbolic significance will be left as an exercise to the reader. The whole book is on a website, and you can order a printed copy if you like that sort of thing. The cover is entrancing, by a Swedish artist. http://www.QuayLargo.com/Transformation/ For all of you, I'd like to announce a brand-new feature on the website. There is now an open chat area, where anyone can post any comments they like. The only limitation is on length of messages (about a page). The suggested starting topic is the book, and people's responses to that. But from there the discussion threads might go anywhere. For those who want to post comments, there is an email-address validation process (to keep out virus and spam postings). The email address will be used for validation only, and will ~not~ show up on the website. Confidentiality is assured, apart from what you choose to post about yourself (which becomes available to any web surfer). If you don't want to post, there is no validation process -- and you are free to look over the comments others have sent in. At the moment there is only one greeting message in the chat area... *-> Who will be the first to post a real comment? best regards, rkm wexford, ireland