New York City- Ambitious Roots

Even with all of our technology today, it still amazed me that yesterday I woke up on LL's couch in New York City and by the afternoon, I was buying pumpkin pie making goods in my World Market store in Denver. Apparently, I don't buy in other cities. I was a bit worried about how I could go to NYC and not purchase something fabulous besides cigars for AMC. Afterall, I won 250 big ones at the work conference when they pulled my business card right out of a bowl, money was not the issue.

It wasn't until this morning after a solid ten hours of zzz's that I realized it. New places, are electrifying. I mean this almost literally. Somehow, I become entranced by all of the newness- and I'm always on my way to see something else grand... that there is no way to make a logical shopping decision. Travel puts me so much in the "present moment" that I can barely handle having a conversation on the phone.

The Big Apple is the epitomy of this feeling. Somehow I ran around town, on 5 hours of sleep, day after day, walking blocks and blocks and blocks until midnight. It happens. I would go to sleep each night with my feet actually throbbing. They felt like I'd helped build the Pyramids or something. I'd think to myself, "ok, tomorrow, take it easy. Go to a cafe and do some blogging." And then, just 5 hours later the dawn would come through the curtain and I couldn't resist. That place is a drug,  an injection, a rabbit hole...it breeds Ambition (yes capitalized.)

Never in my life have I encountered so many people shooting for the stars in their career. Diamond buying for Tiffany's, stylists doing a Garnier hair shoot shown in Rolling Stone. Once I heard a story on NPR about a woman who practically through a dart at a map to find her next home, which turned out to be Las Vegas. She was saying how as a "town" Vegas allows you to be who you are- whether that's a Vegas impersonator or transvestite cocktail waitress. She remarked how free it is, no one wonders- everyone just does what they are. The twin to this must be NYC.

If the city has roots, we go underground to view them. As above, so below. The subway.