<a href="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10946" rel="attachment wp-att-10946"><img class="size-medium wp-image-10946 alignleft" title="IMG00207-20120721-1233" src="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/IMG00207-20120721-1233-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>About a month ago I soaked up good mojo at <strong><a href="http://worlddominationsummit.com" target="_blank">The World Domination Summit</a> </strong>in Portland.  I was surrounded by inspiration and phenomenal peeps.

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A few of these peeps just so happen to reside in my fair city.  Shortly after returning home, I organized a post-WDS meet up to keep the vision alive.

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Note how I am the only one (except for our new non-WDSer friend in pink) who didn't show up in her WDS t-shirt which we all received at the event.

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Oh, well.  WDS is run by <a href="http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/" target="_blank"><strong>The Art of Non-Conformity</strong></a> guy.  He would certainly approve of me arriving in true non-conformist fashion.

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I was also fashionably late.  Because I was lost.

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Yep.  I picked the coffee shop that wreaked "non-conformist" to me, and then I can't find the place!

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Oh, well.  At least I chose correctly with <a href="http://www.cartelcoffeelab.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Cartel Coffee Lab</strong></a>.  Check out this atmosphere.

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<strong>Phoenix WDS Posse (Pictured left to right):</strong>

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Tess Harper of <strong><a href="http://theboldlife.com/" target="_blank">The Bold Life</a></strong>

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Cansu Bulgu of <a href="http://zenandsand.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Zen and Sand</strong></a> (our new friend whom we adopted at the coffee shop!)

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Directionally-challenged Late Bloomer Chick

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Laurie Ann Silberman of <strong><a href="http://phoenixrising.lasilberman.com/" target="_blank">The Sabbatical Diaries</a></strong>

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Erin McNaughton of<a href="http://analyfe.com/" target="_blank"><strong> Analyfe.com</strong></a>

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