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.