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Dave

somewhere in 2007.......

About Me

I moved to Santa Cruz in 2001 from Minnesota, where I've lived most of my life. I have family back there, including my 29 year old daughter, Laurel, and an 9 year old granddaughter, Sarah. I work at the downtown New Leaf Market and run with the Santa Cruz Track Club. I tend to be running along the grassy bluffs or reading at the beach... width="425" height="350" ..in the Pinnacles.. width="425" height="350" ..getting small with the dead..laugh if you will, but this happened to me too... width="425" height="350" ..Yah, I'm from Minnesota, ya know... width="425" height="350" ..Kerouac on the Steve Allen show.. width="425" height="350" ..I SILL LOVE YOU (1965) - THE VEJTABLES sheesh.. width="425" height="350" .. Stairway to Gilligan's Island.. width="425" height="350" .. "COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!"

My Interests

The magnificence of insignificance. I think of myself as a dangling participle.

I'd like to meet:

I meet all types of people in our store - some have yet to be catagorized (diagnosed). Wish I could've met Jack Kerouac, John Lennon, Jerry Garcia, Crazy Horse, Han Shan and Jesus.

Music:

Maybe later

Movies:

Love 'em.

Television:

Mainly public. Also The Office, Survivor and Seinfeld

Books:

Yes. Many.as in: Those afternoons, those lazy afternoons, when I used to sit, or lie down, on Desolation Peak, sometimes on the alpine grass, hundreds of miles of snowcovered rock all around, looming Mount Hozomeen on my north, vast snowy Jack on my south, the encharmed picture of the lake below to the west and the snowy hump of Mt. Baker beyond, and to the east the rilled and ridged monstrosities humping to the Cascade Ridge, and after that first time realizing "It's me that's changed and done all this and come and gone and complained and hurt and joyed and yelled, not the Void" and so that every time I thought of the void I'd be looking at Mt. Hozomeen (because chair and bed and meadowgrass faced north) until I realized "Hozomeen is the Void - at least Hozomeen means the void to my eyes" - Stark naked rock, pinnacles and thousand feet high protruding from hunch-muscles another thousand feet high protruding from immense timbered shoulders, and the green pointy-fir snake of my own (Starvation) ridge wriggling to it, to its awful blue smokebody rock, and the "clouds of hope" lazing in Canada beyond with their tittlefaces and parallel lumps and sneers and grins and lamby blanks and puffs of snout and mews of crack saying "Hoil hoil earth!" - the very top tittermost peak abominables of Hozomeen made of black rock and only when storms blow I don't see them and they return tooth for tooth in storm an imperturbable surl of cloudburst mist - Hozomeen that does not crack like cabin rigging in the winds, that when seen from upsidedown (when I'd do my headstand in the yard) is just a hanging bubble in the illimitable ocean of space- Hozomeen, Hozomeen, most beautiful mountain I ever seen..Jack Kerouac - Desolation Angels

Heroes:

Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Cesar Chavez and those who become great parents under trying situations.