MANY OF YOU WANT TO KNOW what sort of strange rituals go on there.

I AM HERE TO TELL YOU: there is no giant wooden owl called Moloch.

THERE IS ONLY GILBERT.

LIZ GILBERT IS, of course, the author of PILGRIMS and STERN MEN and the article that became the movie “Coyote Ugly,” and she is a dear and old friend. So dear and old that I often forget that she also wrote an amazing super bestseller that you may have read.

(SHE IS ALSO A VERY FINE SINGER. Listen to the end of this link for the EVIDENCE)

BUT WHILE SHE IS ADORED in this video, and I adore her as well, the magical thing you may not be able to get through this embedded video is how skeptical the audience initially was of her, and how masterfully she won over this bunch of jaded billionaire/genius TEDTOPIANS through simple, good storytelling.

That is all.