I have a tremendous interest in words and language. I am currently learning conversational Malayalam. I'm also interested in biking, hiking, camping, traveling, visiting out of the way places with their interesting little shops. I'm a huge fan of history, especially seeing the places where it happened -- as well as museums. I love antiques. I like putting my hand on an antique and trying to imagine how many hands this item has passed through before mine has touched it. The continuity of the concrete things juxtaposed to the brevity of life. I'm keenly interested in the law and in the medical field. If I ever have the wherewithal to return to school, I think I would go into the medical field in some way. I feel like I missed my calling there somehow. I like reading, both fiction and non.
I think there are some really good things on television -- I love History's Mysteries and I have a weakness for some HBO series, Deadwood and the Sopranos. There is so much more. I could write all day. You'll just have to ask if you'd like to know....
I'd like to meet:
Interesting people with a story to tell. Read that as meaning anyone who has had their ups and downs in life and still manages to be in the business of day to day living. My philosophy with friends and people in general is that it doesn't matter how much baggage a person has, it's how they carry it :)
Music:
Bruce Springsteen, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young -- together or separately, Jackson Brown, Eagles, Mercy Me, Norah Jones, Sara McLachlan, Trisha Yearwood, Sting, soundtrack from Dances With Wolves, Hal Ketcham, George Winston, Dave Matthews, Rod Stewart, Nat King Cole, Andrea Bocelli, Joni Mitchell, and much more.....
Secret Garden
By Bruce Springsteen
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Movies:
Love the old black and white classics such as Rebecca, Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, To Kill A Mockingbird are absolute favorites. In more recent years Dances With Wolves, The Big Chill, My Best Friend's Wedding, A Beautiful Mind, The Shipping News, American Beauty, Pirates of the Carribean, Dead Poets Society, and many more.
Television:
Deadwood (HBO), Sopranos (HBO), CSI (the original), Boston Legal, old series from the 60's i.e. Dick Van Dyke, Andy Griffith, even Bonanza! Love that whole sixties, early 70's genre. Scarily enough, there is some reality TV I like such as Survivor and American Idol.....Embarrassing, but true. I also love the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and A&E.
Books:
Currently reading A Thousand Splendid Suns....
Heroes:
My son, my brothers, and (God rest him) my Dad - real men, real heroes.
And of course, Atticus Finch, greatest fictional hero of all time.
