: About Me

Hmm ... still too tall and when I got to 60 I don't even know, perfect damn nonsense if you ask me. Still too single, used to it as I am, doesn't mean I have to like it. I do like the freedoms of getting older: not needing to fit in so much, not having to smile and be smiled at all the time. That it is now acceptable that some people don't like me and never will is a satisfaction I didn't expect to enjoy outside of midnight raids on the fridge. A really welcome change is it's not so much what I look like anymore as it is how I feel; I just hope that it's not too late to jump on the good health wagon for a long ride into the future.

I like the me now who lifts daddy long-legs out of the tub and puts him outside in the grass and the me now who speaks to strangers and jokes around. Looking back on the heavy seriousness that weighted everything in my world, now I wonder at the ego of it, at the idea that I was more "right" than the next guy or more "important" than he. Sheesh, what an obsession with self it all seems to me now. Good riddance to memememe and welcome, come in youyouyou.

My passion is ...

reading

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

children are to be seen and not heard

My childhood ambition ...

to be Elizabeth Taylor in Black Velvet

My favorite memory ...

playing at filming an episode of Leave It To Beaver on the way to Prescott one night.

Why I write ...

I GOTTA' do something with all the goings on in my head

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav and of all things unlikely, classical music

My first job ...

shelving braille textbooks in the braille library at the Foundation for Blind Children

My best moment ...

is yet to be

My inspiration ...

so many people, beautiful sights, intolerable frustrations

Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) Travel experiences: Traveling to discover yourself

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Why it takes the unpredictability of travel to learn new things about oneself I don't know. But it does. I think it has something to do with not knowing much - about the place or the people where you find yourself. Usually we live our daily lives knowing what, where, who and when, we are comfortable, everything is familiar and easy. We know how much gas costs, how far it is to the post office, where to get a good hamburger for a good price. We navigate traffic and elevators with ease, we go to school or work or the gym or the dog park like they were in our own backyard, we meet friends for...

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