Wow! I’ll tell you what a couple weeks I had. As all my subscribers know from the e-letters I send out I was once again off to Nova Scotia for the 4th Annual TAMA Summit, and I will tell you, this year was no let down. First and foremost, thank you to my host Peter Deangelo for putting up with me and my incessant questioning. Trust me, it was appreciated.

So I know that everyone is probably wondering just how OFF DA HOOK this TAMA Summit was (inside joke – Tammy will get it).  Well it was just as insane as the people were making it to be. Asides from the blogging workshops and endless guest lecturers, I can’t believe how quickly the two weeks flew by.

So you’re probably wondering what my take on the whole thing was. Well where to begin… Let me first just tell a quick story that may illuminate just how things have changed in my eyes after this event.

There is an Asian legend which tells the story of two twins in a poor small fishing village. When they are young, they both agree that when they are older they will leave this small village to go to the city to seek their fortune. Unfortunately their father is the town elder/ best fisherman who expects both his boys to stay and carry on his legacy.

The two boys are raised to be fisherman and on their 18th birthday they get lost in a forest. No one hears of them for many years. The father becomes very sad. Unbeknown to him, the boys did not become lost but instead left to the city to seek their fortune. On his deathbed the old man is visited by the twins. Obviously overcome with emotion he looks the boys in their eyes and tearfully asks “why?”

The boys, without hesitation, answer “Money.”

This basically sums up what the Summit was. It was about money, and unabashedly so. We talked of trade, and heard guest lecturers and unsurprisingly the outlook isn’t good. It left me thinking that perhaps things aren’t just on track. So the point of this – when I’m on my deathbed, I don’t want anyone telling me “money.” No I want to hear “trade, cooperation and love.”