A few weeks ago I received an email from an Amercian speaker who was going to be visiting SA with a young choir from The States. As life would have it I didn't find a moment to meet him until his last night in Cape Town, and so I arrived at a dinner quite unlike anything I have experienced before. Greg Forbes Siegman is an unusual man with an uncommon love of people. I didn't know anything about him other than he is a speaker and has a book called The First Thirty and that we was very insistent that the dinner included everyone he had met on his trip. The venue he chose was The Spur in the Waterfront and when I got there he proceded to introduce to an incredible array of  people - from the tour director, to the waiter from his hotel, to an usher from Ster Kinekor to a friend of a friend to a young american woman he had met shopping with her family. He definitely doesn't have the boundaries so many of us have of who we can connect with. It was an inspiring evening and opened my eyes to how many people I miss out on meeting because of self-imposed boundaries.

 Greg and I swapped his book for my CD and the next day I got to read his incredible story and discovered that the meal I experienced with him was in fact a continuation  of years of 'brunches' he has run every sunday with people from all walks in life back in The States. An incredible example of how one person can cross divides to make a difference in many lives & well worth reading.