Where does a Scanner find other Scanners?

It's not easy, witness all the mail I get from readers of Refuse to Choose thanking me because they thought they were the only people as peculiar as they are. When a Scanner is surrounded by other Scanners it's a lovely thing to behold. Imagine: no critics, no one saying you're flakey or lazy.

If you can come to the September retreat, do it. I have a few spaces left and the Masseria in Puglia, Italy is so beautiful. Head over to www.geniuspress.com to see photos and get an explanation of what a Scanner is, and what we do at the retreat. I'm heading out for L.A. where one group from a year ago is having a reunion and we're meeting at the beach in a few days. The first ever Scanner retreat 3 years ago is now having their second reunion in Tuscany. It's like they found their families. Which is good because Scanners aren't only interesting and interested, they're almost always good people. Amazing.

But if you really are in the dark as to what a Scanner is, they call themselves things like:

Eclectic Expert, Magnificent Mind-Changer, Delightful Dilettante, Jolly Jack-of-all-trades, Precocious Plate-Spinner or any victims of repeated hit-and-run obsessions; the intellectual, spiritual & emotional heirs of Aristotle, da Vinci, Goethe, Ben Franklin, Isadora Duncan, and George Plimpton.

Yes, there are great careers for you. I remember a High-Speed Indecisive who got a dream job, some years ago. Leave a comment and I'll be glad to tell you what it was but got to get to sleep to get up to fly out of here in the morning. (He loved it -- for about 2 years -- and then moved on to (I hope) an even better job.