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Cultivating Karma

In February 2014, I asked Brad Feld to help me with a project by accepting to be interviewed by me via email so I could write a story titled, “ What it’s like to live in Boulder, Colorado .” I thought, “Nice guy, but I’ll never hear back from him -- he's just too busy, and he won't give me the time of day.” A few days later, I went for a walk and listened to a few chapters of one of Brad’s books on Audible. At the point when I was most deeply considering what he was saying in the book, I got an email from him that said, “There it is”. He had answered the questionaire. It felt a little surreal actually, and I told him so. He replied with one word: “Karma”. I even looked up the word in the dictionary to see if I was missing something. In a separate incident, a few months ago, upon returning home from an organic / holistic grocery store I frequent, I noticed that the cashier forgot to charge me for a $13 piece of steak (which is already a great price for a grass fe