What a week. I delivered the ClownCon 2026 keynote, “The Honk Within”, to a packed main hall and received the second-longest standing ovation of the conference. (Mimi had the first, for a talk with no words. I've made my peace with it. I've made my peace with it twice now, in a journal.)
The heart of the talk: every clown has a honk inside them, and leadership is creating the conditions for that honk to come out. Several attendees told me afterwards that they cried. One said it changed how he thinks about horns.
Slides and a recording are available on request. I've already had a lot of requests.