: About Me

Donovan Baldwin is a Texas writer and a University of West Florida alumnus. He is a member of Mensa and is retired from the U. S. Army after 21 years of service. He has held several managerial and supervisory positions over the years. His interests are varied, including health, fitness, animals, nature, the environment, renewable and sustainable energy, and travel. He has a website where he posts information on health, fitness, diet, and weight loss at http://nodiet4me.com and a blog on the same topics at http://nodiet4me.blogspot.com .

My passion is ...

health

I know too much about ...

not enough

My parents always told me ...

get an education

My childhood ambition ...

was to fly jet fighters in the Navy

My favorite memory ...

walks on the white sands of Pensacola Beach

Why I write ...

because I have to

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

the biography of Walter Cronkite

My first job ...

paperboy

My best moment ...

my daughter's birth

My inspiration ...

my father

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: When you bury me

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I will be neither dead nor sleeping, but will transcend, For I have chosen to become more than what any other man may be. I will be too small to be a god and too great to be a human So I will wander between two worlds wherever mortal remains reside...or in what state. When you bury me, it will be your choice of when, and where, and how, For I shall be away and not available for asking.

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