I have more interests than I can mention. They range from reading (anything that will inspire me or kill a few hours of pain) to drinking (coffee, scotch, any non domestic or microbrewed ale [i'm a snob you know]) to walking long minutes with anyone I am comfortable with...the list goes on. For the sake of some semblance of brevity, we'll say that my interests are seasonal. One thing never changes. I like to cook.
adopt your own virtual pet!
Ya know, I am thinking that I would like to meet anyone who has something important to tell me. I would like to meet someone willing to be as big a fool as I so we can laugh about it together.
Music has the potential to reach into our fibers and change the sound of the universe. Therefore, I am selective about mine. I like to know that where I am going involves no dark alleys or smelly ditches. Sometimes, I am taken in by a warm smile only to find that when I leave I can't see straight, I have shoved all of my money down some stripper's g string or into a bottle and someone punched me in the eye. So, gimmie my Matisyahu and Shlomo Carlebach cause they are walkin with me to the promised land.
Well, I watch em alot. Although many of them bore me to tears.
Lost, Firefly, Buffy, Sopranos, Family Guy, Smallville
Ayn Rand, James Patterson, and Dean Koontz (cause he writes about dogs-) Stephen R. Donaldson has recently made my list. and Student of the Torah...ya know, any of you with thoughts on this would be good to mention them to me. I used to spend alot of time drinking in its words, lately I am not inspired. There are a lot of things I am not lately, most of them stem from this fundamental issue.
Yeah well my parents (to include my stepmom) are first and foremost. As I get older I realize that they sure as hell aren't perfect, they made (and continue to make) more mistakes than I can count. But they set a cornerstone of love in my life and always tried to succeed in the things that shaped me. How many can say that? It is not my place to say. But the impact of Mom and Dad and Jackie on my life....the fundamental shape they gave me has given me a decent mind, a big heart (sorry, know I wasn't gonna mention that) and the profound sense that I will be able to succeed in the same necessary ways when I have my children. Much of my family fits into this category to a lesser degree and that is just the nature of things.