: About Me

Born in England, Private school, Military college.
Spent a while on the road laid down, then left the path and followed my heart.
I have been a security advisor, reporter, commercial artist, rock musician, accountant and business executive.
Through the years I have painted in oils, written poetry and prose, listened to music, developed new recipes and read widely.
Underlying all this, for the past forty odd years I have studied magick, mysticism and religion in some detail.
I have corresponded with many individuals both in email and over usenet on those subjects, and have been fortunate enough to have a couple things published electronically.
I have not had TV in my house for some fifteen years, preferring to cook, watch videos, read, sketch and talk to my family.

My passion is ...

love of life

I know too much about ...

myself to imagine I know anything at all

My parents always told me ...

To always be a Gentleman

My childhood ambition ...

To be a Knight Errant

My favorite memory ...

The birth of my kids

Why I write ...

what makes you think I have a choice?

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

as much as I can.

My first job ...

picking strawberries as a kid

My best moment ...

Yet to come, or to have been.

My inspiration ...

The fifth element

Parenting & Pregnancy > Child Discipline Strategies How parents often treat their children like totalitarian governments treat their citizens

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Totalitarian Governments are characterized by the erosion of basic freedoms, as well as the intrusive nature of those governments into the lives of their citizens: without freedom, the concept of freedom and all that depend upon it, cannot exist in any coherent form. In George Orwell's masterpiece, "1984", the government has found the way to eradicate all basic freedoms for the governed: absolute control of the media is combined with control of language. It is perhaps a reflection upon the extent to which we have become conditioned to accept limits on our freedom, that the above is eerily ...

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