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About Me

Everything I know now, I knew at 19. It just took me all this time to comprehend what I knew. It's like listening to Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now," the one she recorded when she was 18 or 19 and the one she recorded in 2000 (or 2001). The first one is a beautiful inspiration and I doubt she fully understood what she wrote. This last one is another matter. It makes me cry. She put in the time; now she knows.

Between then and now, some learning has become refined like: life is messy and you aren't going to fix it. You'll never get caught up. Loving someone doesn't change them; the love created between you does. There is no substitute for spending time in the flesh with those you care about. Being right is empty; being in conversation is not. God is in the ordinary things. Fear is not of God.

Abiding is one of my favorite words.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

the friends on MySpace I've not met; Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Avila, Dag Hammershold, Kofi Amman, the Carters, Adlai Stevenson, Gandhi, Carl Jung, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fanny Kimble, Bill Moyers, Rumi, Francis and Clare; Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah; Martin Luther King, Jr., Joni Mitchell, Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, Sting, Judy Collins, . . . Wallace Boone Thomas, my father

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My Blog

Reflections from the Runway

On February 10, 2007, Stefan had his first Runway show at Couture Fashion Week in the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria in New York. This show followed Fashion Week and featured designers fr...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:56:00 GMT

For A Lone Warrior

I wrote this for my brother Daniel in 1975.Lone warrior on a barren fieldwandering in search of an enemy & nbsp; Lay down yo...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:34:00 GMT

Outside of Time Cont'd

Here's the remainder of the Introduction; my synapses are firing--I want to get back to this . . . My life, any life, is a tapestry whose threads leave off here, begin again there. Colors inter...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:17:00 GMT

Outside of Time

I wrote this years ago as part of an introduction to a book I started to write; I have thinking lately that it still holds true for me and maybe I need to get back to that book: Momentsoutside of time...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:09:00 GMT

Gardening Soul 2

It may seem strange to be using a flower as my profile picture at this time. This isn't just any flower. It's a Night Blooming Cereus (for a close look at this flower, go to my pics section and...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:46:00 GMT

Nurturing the Artist

Recently I attended a performance of Durufle's Requiem at a local Episcopal church. The voice solos were extraoridinary but it was the violinist who reached deeper into my heart than this...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:03:00 GMT

The Hunger Site

I just wanted to remind you, in case you don't know, that there is a website called The Hunger Site. You may click once a day; your click sends rice to a hungry person. The site also give...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:39:00 GMT

Gardening Soul 1

Gardening is soul food for me; the metaphors from the garden have taught me as much about life as any of my favorite people, authors, or pieces of music.--I've lived in different places d...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:23:00 GMT

Senior Moments on MySpace

Keep in mind that the first piece of "technology" that I owned all by myself was an 8 lb. Hermes portable typewriter--I was very proud of it and typed all of my college papers on it. (And,...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:15:00 GMT