Overdo Updates

To the friends of the Urbanmonks -

It has been too long.  Sorry about that.  But moving to a different city will keep you busy.  Plus, I have really taken the month or two in transition to retreat from the Urbanmonks Thinktank a bit, to hold it up in a different light, to check in with our mission, our direction.  

It has been rich.  All in all, I think the Urbanmonks is in a good place, continuing to a grow a team of creative and thoughtful collaborators.  

There is much to share and I will as soon as I can finish writing the The State of the Urbanmonks Thinktank. I think it will be an interesting read and I look forward to sharing with you and getting some feedback.   

The most exciting news from us is that we began the first-annual Street Book Workshop.  We have some awesome talent working on some exciting topics ranging from cookbooks, children books, local history books, and cultural studies.  

I hope all is well out there wherever you might be reading this. 

Doug

Establishing a West Coast Urbanmonks Outpost

This January has been a busy one.  Moved the Urbanmonks Thinktank our to Portland, Oregon.  Building contacts, researching locales for the street cart here.  I left the East Coast cart in New York.  I will build a new one in February and March.  Looking forward to that. 

I have been thinking a lot about what book I want to work on this year.  

I will be making a formal announcement for a collaborative street book workshop which will run from February through May.  It will be largely correspondent, but there may be a local Portland group that will meet weekly. 

Stay tuned.  Good things happening.  Urbanmonks in Portland. 

Doug