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Lance

Sometimes, some things just work out. It's great when it does!

About Me

I must admit - the artist type always draws me in... what can I say - I'm a romantic! Artist or not what is most important is an open heart, an open mind and communication skills to share both.
This is hard to explain, but I have two passions in life, art and medicine. I’m driven to continue this path in medicine, pursuing a career in pediatric cardiac anesthesiology. Transforming this into reality, I find myself fully motivated on all levels: working with patients research, and innovation. All of that, while I’m doing it, fascinates me and enthralls me with a sense of purpose and value.
Then I wake up on random mornings and feel my life completely in conflict with what my heart yearns to experience. My heart tugs and pulls on me to find a life where I spend my time mesmerized by my all forms of art, especially music and nature. Because I cannot devote myself to this world, I dream of living vicariously through my artistic lover’s passion, experiencing life through sounds, colors, textures, and nature. To find myself in life where at any moment I could leave the world of medicine and dive into my lover’s life and find myself exploring aspects of humanity in some gentle, unbiased, discovering frame of mind is truly a dream. So until I meet my partner, I will play the piano, write poetry, find the artistic magic in nature and keep my heart open.
This was an interesting cause:
http://www.current.tv/pods/issue/PD05166
Fact: One day I want to be a Ventriloquist. Still looking for the right doll.
You Are An ENTP
The Visionary
You are charming, outgoing, friendly. You make a good first impression.
You possess good negotiating skills and can convince anyone of anything.
Happy to be the center of attention, you love to tell stories and show off.
You're very clever, but not disciplined enough to do well in structured environments.
You would make a great entrepreneur, marketing executive, or actor. What's Your Personality Type?

My Interests

My dog Hope, nature, life, music, piano, outdoors, ice cream, exercise, camping, hiking, biking, swimming, snowboarding, romance, dinners and movies, business

I'd like to meet:

Someone who could write a six word novel and make my mind lost track of time... like this one:

For Sale
Baby Shoes
Never Used

Friends who are open to spontaneity, willing to try almost anything, enjoys white water rafting, snowboarding or skiing, camping and cabins and walks through woods and poetic conversations. Someone who appreciates wisdom and remains teachable. Someone who is emotionally inspired by music, enjoys making love, gives without realizing it, isn't afraid to ride a bicycle, doesn't use psychotherapy as a source of validation. I'm open to new ideas and new people. Someone bright, witty, honest and charming... Bottom line, anyone who can act out Edith Massey's best performances - dinner is on me... width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" ..

Music:

M. Ward, Blue States, of course... This Mortal Coil and anything Elizabeth Fraser, Mohave 3, Imogen Heap, Cocteau Twins, Mazzy Star, Keane, Aeon Spoke, Marjorie Fair, Tori Amos, Radiohead, Air, Sophie B. Hawkins, Annie Lennox, John Denver, Fleetwood Mac, Sigur Ros, Justin Clayton, Sparklehorse, deep house, folk

Movies:

Intacto, Closer, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind, KILL BILL!, Monster, Heaven, Being There, Harold and Maude, Memento, Terms of Endearment, Dummy, Donnie Darko, The Dark Crystal, American Beauty, Spirited Away

Television:

WEEDS, 24, John Stewart, SNL, Sanford and Son, What's Happening!, Late Show with David Letterman

Books:

Mindfulness, Blink, The Giving Tree, When Things Fall Apart, Blinded by the Right

Heroes:

Superman, Redd Foxx, my friend Anthony

My Blog

It's Something in the Way I Smell October

It's something in the way I smell the dying leaves of fall... the leaves of fall... falling... left the trees bare.It's something in the way I smell old wheat and stacks of grasspiled golden, not gree...
Posted by Lance on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:14:00 PST

Wet Cotton

My soul is happiest when it discovers possibilities are all around me& as far as I can see the horizon appears to expand& and I can imagine people passing into my life& into my awareness and being dra...
Posted by Lance on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:16:00 PST

My thoughts to the LGBT in the community -

Invest in someone's life who is older than you.  They will teach you more than you could learn in a lifetime on your own.  Learn to trust.  The longer you wait to be honest about who yo...
Posted by Lance on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:15:00 PST

Am I just a Visitor?

I am suffering.  I cannot seem to reconcile how this man who I experienced as the man of my dreams one day decides he has the right to do whatever he wants and that I have no say so how our ...
Posted by Lance on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:15:00 PST

Come to Understand

Come to understand Life grows brighter when you come to understand. Live with a love and thankfulness for life, and your understanding of it will become more valuable. Come to understand that the oth...
Posted by Lance on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:18:00 PST

Awaken Yourself Gently

"All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence th...
Posted by Lance on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:29:00 PST

Playing by different rules

I have learned that two people can genuinely share similar aspirations and inspirations, but if they play by different rules, they can be experiencing something entirely different and can ac...
Posted by Lance on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:49:00 PST

Learning to Love

It is when I am hurt that I most benefit from loving another.  The exact moment in which I insist on caring for that person who... just before said or did something that hurt me, caused me anger,...
Posted by Lance on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

One of my favorite poems

"i will present you parts of my self slowly if you are patient and tender. i will open drawers that mostly stayed closed and bring out places and people and things, sounds and smells,...
Posted by Lance on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Happenstance

I wanted you To have this So you could remember There are those Who touch the Earth, Who, by holding one rose, Are consumed By its beauty They fail to imagine The other eleven; Those who ca...
Posted by Lance on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST