Celebrating life and new friends

The third installment of LaCour's Business of Storytelling workshop concluded Thursday. I am always struck by the new relationships formed at our workshops, and the intensity with which people connect and relate to one another. As we said goodbye, new friends made plans to visit one another, women who had just met four days prior were hugging and saying they loved each other. This will always remain one of our greatest satisfactions in hosting workshops: the ability to bring strangers together for the benefit of their futures, both personal and business.

Before saying goodbye, though, we did it up right at Atlanta restaurant ecco, where we also honored the 80th birthday of Rachel's grandfather, Billy Barnes. In addition to Rachel's grandparents, who came down from Virginia, Rachel's parents and brother Jonathan (and his wife Lacey) and Mark's parents also joined us for a fantastic, celebratory dinner. Thanks to Michael Hooks for documenting the evening.





Lastly, one crazy coincidence from the dinner: Eric Laurits, one of our workshop participants from Boston, kept eyeing our waitress, Mindy, all night. She was stealing glances at him too, trying to figure out why he looked so familiar. Turns out, Eric shot her engagement photos in Rhode Island. So we have a workshop student from Boston, reconnecting with a bride who lives in Atlanta, whom he photographed in Rhode Island. Crazy. Here are Eric's photos of Mindy with her fiancé Rob, who also works at ecco.