There is no good way to really begin to describe myself in a few sentences, just like you can't be described in a few lines either. I carry the spirit of light and late afternoon sky in me. I'm passionate, intense, curious, intelligent, quiet and shy all at once. I am equal parts god and beast, spirit and fire. I have had a very full life, and have seen and done so much that I have started to become formless. I've seen the bright and sublime, and I've also seen darkness and despair. Life is precious, and it's just way too short to see and do everything I'd like to experience. I love silent, thoughtful, soulful people. I love women who accept their beauty, who are passionate, feminine, capable. I love men who are men, not caricatures, who are strong and confident yet honest enough with themselves to admit being wrong and weak sometimes as well, men who remember that strength and tenderness can go hand in hand, who are willing to take a stand for whatever it is they believe in and to create whatever it is they need to create while they are still here. Everyone here came into this world alone and everyone here will leave this world alone, but this means that each one of us is enough, that we already have everything we need for this adventure waiting inside of us, that we are made of the light of stars, the warmth of a fire and the joy of a small child. ..Well it's time to WAKE THE FUCK UP!So do it. Wake up. When you drink the coffee tomorrow, take it black and notice it. Feel the caffeine surge through you. Don't take it for granted. Use it for something. Burn the Grisham books. Sell the bad CDs. Mariah Carey, Dave Mathews and N Sync aren't part of the soundtrack where you're going.Cut your hair. Don't worry about the gray. If you're good at what you do, no one cares what you look like. Go to the weight room. Learn the difference between actually working out and what you've been doing. Live for the Iron and the fresh air. Punish your body to perfect your soul. Kick the habit of being nice to everyone you meet. Do they deserve it? Say "no" more often.Quit posturing at the weekly parties. Your high pulse rate, your 5.12s and quick time on the Slickrock Trail don't mean shit to anybody else. These numbers are the measuring sticks of your own progress; show, don't tell. Don't react to the itch with a scratch. Instead, learn it. Honor the necessity of both the itch and the scratch. But a haircut and a new soundtrack do not a modern man make. As long as you have a safety net you act without commitment. You'll go back to your old habits once you meet a little resistance. You need the samurai's desperateness and his insanity.Burn the bridge. Nuke the foundation. Back yourself up against a wall. Have an opinion one way or the other, get off the fence and rip it up. Cut yourself off so there is no going back. Once you're committed the truth will come out. You ask about security? What you need is uncertainty. What you need is confusion; something that forces you to reinvent yourself, a whip to drive you harder."I never try anything - I just do it. Want to try me?In Dune, Frank Herbert called it "the attitude of the knife," cut off what's incomplete and say "now it has finished, for it has ended there." So finish it, and walk away, forward. Only acts undertaken with commitment have meaning. Only your best effort matters. Life is a Meritocracy, with death as the auditor. Inconsistency, incompetence and lies are all cut short by that final word. Death will change you if you can't change yourself."If I can change one, then I can change two. If I can change two, then I can change four. If I can change four, then I can change eight. If I can change eight, then I can change."
One Minute Silence, "If I Can Change"All the time I have a smile on my face,but I am normal!Is it normal?
People of humor are always in some degree people"
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." Buddha
".....My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white...... /M.P./ "Life is short! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly! Laugh uncontrollably!!!""
