Nathaniel Merriweather

Me, Myself & I! I love to write! I love music! I love seeing live music! I am going to learn to play the piano thus writing my own music. I enjoy playing hooky and seeing a couple of movies during the day on my own just as much as I do seeing a movie with company. I like art, any kind of art, especially really gaudy art! I like to read, I will try to read anything you set in front of me. I like wit. I like originality. I love a dry sense of humor. I do not pander. I do not conform. I do not loiter. I don't like birds and birds do not like me. Dolls & clowns freak me out. Ignorance, stupidity and I do not get along. I am stubborn. I like cool weather. I am random... I like taking walks. I like holding hands. I like hugs. I like flip flops. I love beaches. I like road trips. I like talking about religion, politics, and the general state of this place we refer to as Earth, even if I am not drunk. I am a giver. I like to help people. I like original ideas and thought. I am disorganized even though I am a Virgo. I like the ocean, and sharks, and everything else it entails.I like theater; I like acting though I do not do it anymore. I like sports, watching, playing, just sports in general. People say I am funny, and I do tend to crack myself up so perhaps they are right. I like to travel though I really have not done enough of it. I hope to change that very soon. I like to play video games as they give a great sense of escape.In the conversation of "If you could have any super power which would it be?" I tend to go with "fly" though super speed or strength would be handy too! Actually just give me the entire Superman package and I would be ecstatic.I love my family and my friends. I am dedicated to the people in my life. Old school break dancing greatly entertains me, as does M.C. Hammer and Vanilla Ice. I have a strange sense of humor. I can be quiet and shy, or I can be loud and obnoxious. I am adaptable. I am needy. I am emotional though I try to hide it. I plan. I can be somewhat obsessive - though not to the extent of creepy. I like clothes, and shoes, and hats. I like fires. I do not like silence. I like brain teasers, and IQ tests, and Trivial Pursuit. I listen to Seattle radio .. to hear new music and get jealous of their weather.I hate playing “the game”. I cannot stand to be ignored. I write poems and they are often about no one or nothing in particular. I am creative. I tend to keep to myself. I am confusing. I let you know what I want. I am not too manly to cry. I do not know when to quit. I love to learn. Strangely enough I often find me perplexing myself.In this case, I intended for the made-up word to suggest both Being-toward-death (that is, one's own being-toward-his-or-her-own-death) and also the Being-of-Death (that is, the Being of Death itself, as it becomes a character in every person's own narrative). If I kept in mind how ephemeral existence is, I might be more inclined to hold my tongue--or not hold it--toward the people I love who are each spilling out into the ether like everything--proliferating singularities passing with each moment toward nonbeing like time itself. We live lives that are--which is miraculous when they might have just as well not been, and as I tick through it, I should be more aware that this is the thing to celebrate.