So, I mean, who IS this guy… (going third person here… )
ROLES (not in order of importance) -semi-retired engineering designer -musician -student -being mentored -mentor -hiker -artist -photographer -inner worker -cartographer
ATTITUDES -progressive -“middle child” (I seek common ground) -I love listening to and telling stories -introspective -extroverted -EN(T/F)P -born on the Aquarius/Pisces cusp -I don’t crave stability
HABITS -omnivorous -averages 6 hours sleep (Midnight to 6 a.m.) -I spend an hour most mornings doing emotional/spiritual inventory -I default to sports when I’m bored -I am not obsessed with housework but my bathroom is clean and my dishes are washed. -I usually wear a T-shirt, jeans and tennis shoes (I wear polo shirts to work.) -not a TV guy (other than Steven Colbert and Seth Meyers)
TASTES -wide variety of music genres (baroque to the latest hip hop beats) -not into theater much (I enjoy it but don’t choose it.) -more into films than movies
-love vegetables (and sometimes a burger and fries…) -I don’t choose fish -I eat a lot of cold cereal with almond milk these days – I like Mexican and Thai restaurants, learning more about Indian food (I wrote cuisine and blanched at the word. I’m more a diner kind of guy.) -I favor strong, black coffee from an independent roaster
-I love everything KXCI (Tucson community radio) -other buttons on my car radio = NPR, ESPN, 97.5 Classic hip hop, a couple classic rock station, one jazz station.
LONGING FOR
-time. I love my life and everything in it. I wish I had more time to practice sax (and keyboards.) I wish I had time to both have coffee with my friends and time to get to know new people.
-Some one person who gets me and is reasonably available to share time and space with me. Someone eager to pick up when I call. Someone who will hear me out before calling me on my shit. (Sometimes getting it all out presents the solution!)
-A less-divided nation. We’ve always had differences. Both sides have good reasons for feeling the way they do. I am progressive. I tire of the rants and name-calling my leftist friends have adopted. Vilification adds nothing but cement shoes to finding a workable compromise. Often there are no solutions. We’ve allowed ourselves to be misguided.
-An end to abuse. Starts with me. I’m learning to see where I fail to hold others with full respect. You have an absolute right to be who you are so long as you are abusing no other.
Warts 