Visionary Troubadour

It’s 4:27am Saturday morning here in Ouro Preto, Brasil, and they’re still going at it. Down in the valley somewhere, they’re beating drums. They’ve been doing it since maybe 9 or 10pm. They’re preparing for Carnival, just as they’ve been doing almost every night since I arrived here. They’re probably going later tonight than usual [...]

The Visionary Troubadour enjoys a life rich in gifts from others, and rich in the gratitude and love that is generated as one gifts to others. The path of the Visionary Troubadour is made possible by converting many of your monetized transactions into gifting transactions, while also possibly finding ways to generate streams of cash [...]

“Let us give you a plot of land down by the river. It’s yours.” said the visionary young man with the big grin was translating his father’s words, as swung his arm in the direction of the tropical mountains. In his other arm he held his two year old son, who was being raised not [...]

Stepping off the plane from Cairo, nearly everyone is wearing traditional Middle Eastern clothing. Based on the news media from the US that I’ve grown up with, I’m very curious about how folks with receive me as an American. The Saudis, I learn are the ones wearing the red and white checkered headdresses. And aside [...]