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Richard

At play in the fields of the lord.

About Me

I'm a bit of a wanderer: a schlemiel, if you like. I'm still trying to find my Damascene Road; I'm waiting for Godot, transcendence, bodhisatva; I'm searching for a heart of gold, a Big Rock-Candy Mountain, and a decent bowl of plov. I'm looking for a dirty smile on a beautiful face.

My Interests

The movement of the light on the surfaces of my life. Curves, bifurcations, carnivalesque distortions, and reverberations. The unfettered joy in the eyes of a boon companion during that rare moment when the mad whir of time and space suddenly stops in silent moment of pure transcendence of the physical realm. In short, Love.

I'd like to meet:

An honest fun-loving individual who does not hold my mistakes against me. Someone who has no problem talking things through, no matter how bone headed I seem.

Music:

Molvanian Folk music; dirges; laments; mazurkas; scrapings of sounds perceived when one is half in the bag in the Greyhound station in a dying rust-belt city and so lonely that the rhythmn of an out of whack fan bearing brings a smile to your face. The Music of the Spheres. Things I have heard and have never heard. John Ashcroft's musical stylings. Nothing I have to pay for, as music should be free.

Movies:

Anything that makes me feel like I need a shower.

Television:

Ain't had one in years. However, I get sucked in as much as the next guy.

Books:

I'm addicted to the printed word. There, I admitted it. Books are the only worthwhile entertainment short of ... .

Heroes:

Nestor Mahkno, James Joyce, Peter Kropotkin, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, Serena Williams, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, Francis Drake, F.M. Bailey, St. Francis di Asissi, Giordano Bruno, Eugene Debs, Dorothy Day, Emma Goldman, Theodore Gericault, Jesus H. Christ, and any poor motherfucker who's stood on the divider of an on ramp on the I-5 begging for compassion.

My Blog

New home

The first ten days find me running errands, lazing about in the sun, and trying to slowly get the foundations of an entirely new life sorted out. The bed situation finally is resolved. My new mattre...
Posted by Richard on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:37:00 PST

Morning Coffee

It's a beautiful Sunday Morning in Biddeford, if Biddeford can be said to have any beauty.  In an attempt to keep from taking the long swim to China, I force myself to admit that beauty can survi...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:09:00 PST

In Mexico City...

on the Day of the Dead. All hell is breaking loose in the Zocalo, and it has been for days. Tomorrow we hover over the city in a helicopter, photographing the houses of 18 million people. Ah the hu...
Posted by Richard on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 03:54:00 PST

Blizzard

I can't tell if it is still snowing. The flakes are flying in too many directions at once. I just got back inside after digging the truck out. Watched a guy slam his car into a huge pile of snow th...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Another snowstorm on the wrong day

Much like I did when I was a schoolboy, I yearn for that day off becuase of the snow. Now, as a teacher of schoolboys, I yearn for those snow days even more. The snow has started. But it's Saturday...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST