BENEFIT EVENT

San Francisco is a sexy town. It flirts with me. Sometimes I find myself idly twirling my hair between my fingers, eyes cast downwards, a little gasp under my breath as it propositions me. It makes me giggle it's so naughty. I am pretty confident that I could not live my life as openly and happily anywhere else on this planet but San Francisco.

The word 'erotic' is derived from the Greek God of love, sexuality and beauty, Eros. It's a binding principle of attraction, emotion and union. Erotic nature draws us together in pleasure, desire, and joy. Where Eros is feminine, Logos is masculine and refers to the rational mind, logic and reason.

The Ancient Greek aphorism “Know Thy Self” (Greek: γνώθι σεαυτόν or gnothi seauton) was inscribed in shiny gold letters above the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. It is a fundamental concept attributed to a number of philosophers, including Socrates, and an ideal that the human race has been striving towards for 2500 years.

From the caves of pre-history to the utopian survival freakfest, the Burningman Festival, man has been giving gifts to build community. Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins talks about the culture of giving that existed in Stone Age life as being an expression of abundance.