Marshall was injured in an accident involving four-wheeler and is still in the emergency room with plans to be transferred to a room once they have finished all tests and blood work.  The nurse spoke with him and received permission for her to discuss his condition with me.
 
He has four broken and displaced ribs all on the right side and a broken right clavicle.  His right lung is collapsed with some blood and air in it.  His nurse says he is in stable condition and it is not in a life threatening.
 
Once they have transferred him, he will be evaluated for surgery where they would put a metal plate in to hold his ribs in the proper place.

 We will be having a healing call Thursday (5/26/11) at 2:30PM MT. If you would like to join us in sending love and healing energy to Marshall, please use the following information to connect to the call:

 Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 844-0850
 Participant Access Code: 622217#

Also, please feel free to send your healing message to him using the comment button below.

Kiki seems to being doing great!!! Amazing actually!! A few burns on her chest & back from the electric shocks. Other than that she is a living miracle. (Update as of 10/31/10 11PM)

My heart is in arrhythmia so basically it's like I have been jogging since the surgery.  Tomorrow morning cardioversion of electric shock will be performed to reset my heart to its regular rhythm.

This is a procedure that is done all the time and I should be good to go after I wake up.

Please visualize a relaxed heart beat for me tomorrow morning. The procedure begins at 8:30AM PT and lasts until 12:30PM.

 

Many of you know Kiki Hillman and have your own experience of how wonderful and extraordinary she is. For those of you who don't know Kiki, she is one of the most beautiful humans (both inside and out) there is. She "gives" first without expecting anything in return. Wherever Kiki goes and whatever she does she brings love and lightness. People feel better about themselves around her.

Perhaps all her heartfelt giving created her present challenge. Recently, she had open- heart surgery to replace a "dissected aorta." The seven-and a half hour operation went well; however there are some unexpected complications.

Please join us and give some love and healing back to Kiki. If you would forward this on to others who you feel would be willing to join us on the call that would be so appreciated.

Thank you.
Marshall Thurber

We gathered for on 10/23/10 for a healing call, and the recording can be found here .

Jan’s doctor, Dr. Kemeny at Sloan Kettering,  just said she cannot find any cancer in Jan and will be taking her off chemo after one more round (six weeks).  This has never happened before at Sloan Kettering nor can we find any evidence of it happening on the Internet either.  

No one with colon cancer that had metastasized to the liver and had a grapefruit sized mass in her uterus has ever become cancer-free.  That is what happened in Jan's case.  The only conclusion I can come to is that it is a miracle.

We are very confident that your prayers and good energy played a significant part in this miracle.   Thank you!!! You are part of a life-changing miracle.  Thank you!!!!

Thank you doesn't seem like enough—yet I am not sure what else to say. Thank you!!!!  Thank you!!!!  Thank you!!!!  Thank you!!!

Love,

Marshall Thurber

Insights into the Julie & Julia Movie. Download PDF

Yesterday I was on the phone with Guru (David) Steven a Positive Deviant Network member.  We were talking about the future and Bucky’ concepts of Ephemeralization” (doing more and more with less and less) and Bucky’s concept of “Emergence through  Emergency.”

When I got home, I turned on the computer and read this article.  Just thought I would share it with you.  Bucky gave me a faith in “there is something mysterious going on”. 

I believe Bucky will be eventually viewed as one of the greatest minds to ever live.  With that in mind I would love to have you join me at the Whitney Museum at 945 Madison Avenue (At 75^th) Street, New York NY 10021  (212) 570-3600 at the main entrance at 10:00 AM on Saturday August 16^th.   http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2008-07-11-voa35.cfm

 I doubt that there will ever be an exhibit of Bucky’s artifacts like this again in my lifetime.  The artifacts, however, are like attempting to view describe an orange by looking at it from the outside and never having tasted one.  Hopefully, we will be able to look at these artifacts (the outside) and I will do my best to describe the “taste” of Bucky’s thinking.

 If you can make it, I would love to share this experience with you.  Please let me know if you can make it by responding to the Evite (Click here to view and respond to the invitation. If you don’t already have an Evite account, you will need to register when you get there.)

 
Love,

Marshall

It is the 4^th of July, Jan and I just came back to our home outside of Park City.  We will be here a week before returning to NYC for her next round of Chemo.

When we got into the home, we looked on Jan’s desk; on the top of the desk were the plans we had been working on for her funeral.   She has come a long way; I know it is because of your love, support and prayers that she was able to return here.

Both of us thank you!  I know my life has changed so positively having received your support.

Love,
Marshall

I thank every one of you for your prayers, your flowers, your calls, your visits, your gifts etc. etc.  They have made a HUGE impact.  Approximately 50% of all people given chemo get no benefit from it.   Yet, today when we got Jan’s first official report back after two months of chemo the results made the Dr. excited (and she is not the excitable type!)  Jan’s tumor in her cervix has shrunk in by more than half.  The spots on her liver have also shrunk by more than half.  This is fantastic news.

Equally important is Jan’s CEA score.  CEA is a blood test that is used to measure cancer activity; a normal score is 3 and a normal score for a smoker is 5.  When we arrived in New York at Sloan Kettering Jan’s CEA score was 53.  Now, two months later, Jan’s score is 18.  Such a drop is as close to a miracle as the medical profession will acknowledge.   Again: THANK YOU!!!!  I am convinced your energy and support was and continues to be the difference.

Granted, Jan is not out of the woods; the tumors are not small enough yet to be operable.  However, cancer studies show that those who respond to the first two month round of chemo continue to respond during the second two month round.   Hopefully, they will get small enough to so an operation is possible. Even if the tumors disappear completely she will still need to have an operation.  The survival rate without an operation, even with the tumor complete disappears, is only 5% without surgery.

We will be moving into a small brown-stone that we bought for Jan’s daughter Jessie in Brooklyn in the Bed/Stuy area.  Since there are only three apartments, we are turning it into one single family home.  We will join Jessie and her husband Oliver in the brownstone while Jan continues her treatment.  My best case time estimate: two years.  

Again, thank you for all your good thoughts, prayers and kindness.  Your support has changed my life; I feel I am a better, kinder and more appreciative human being because of the collective you.
 
With gratitude,

Marshall

How to create weak-ties; this one of the most powerful components of Network Science;

There is an interesting article by Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dunlap in the Harvard Business Review on network science. In their “How to Build Your Network” they brought up the Paul Revere and William Dawes example. Both rode on horseback on the same night shouting and knocking on doors shouting. “The British are coming…the British are coming!” People responded to Paul Revere and took immediate action; those who heard William Dawes didn’t.

What was the cause of the different responses? Paul Revere had created a network of weak-ties who trusted Paul. Dawes had not. Without trusted weak ties your message (and likewise your DyVal) does not spread rapidity.

How do you create trusted weak ties? The Harvard article recommends that you join a cause bigger than yourself. They don’t call it “a higher social and moral purpose” yet that is exactly what they are recommending. The do say, that working with others on a project that has a higher social and moral purpose “will build trust quickly, even among diverse individuals.”

By being part of the Positive Deviant Network (PDN) and its support of Doing Life will establish “weak ties” ties for you in networks you don’t now belong. By fully participating you will build trust with these diverse individuals. You will have established weak ties who trust you.

Please join us on our mission to transform countless lives and save the tax payers billions of dollars. If you are not a member of the Positive Deviant Network you can attend this session for $500 (To Register Click Here). This will be credited to your Positive Deviant Network membership should subsequently chose to become a member.

Also if you haven’t taken the Interested in Saving Taxpayers Billions quiz please do so. Please click here and take this important quiz.

In addition, please send the below email not only your close friends but to those who you want to become trusted weak ties.

Trusted weak ties and DyVal brings rapid success. It takes both.

Subject: Interested in Saving Taxpayers Billions? Take this Quiz.

Dear……..

I am part of a network that has already saved taxpayers over a billion dollars! Equally important it has positively transformed countless lives. Please click here and take this important quiz. We are in the process of solving this issue with our predicable Doing Life System.

Thanks for doing this!

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Weak ties who trust you and your unique DyVal bring rapid success; It takes both.

Weak Ties Who Trust You + Unique DyVal = SUCCESS!!