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~John~

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

About Me

I have many interests and am adding new ones all the time...I love: music, movies, books, nature, learning... I work in the mental health field...have played guitar and bass for 30 years...still love it and get to play each day...I have a soft spot for gray rainy days and a hot cup of tea... I live in Maine and wouldn't be anywhere else!

My Interests

Peach Pit Carving, Tai Chi, Writing and Recording Music , Spoken Word Recordings, reading, writing, poetry, comedy, chess, Bass and Guitar, watercolor, illuminated manuscripts

I'd like to meet:

Creative & Open Minded People who are still growing in new ways; excited about living & learning...

I've been spending some time each day trying to play this rotating Stratocaster...have not, as of yet, had what you'd call "success" in doing so...

Music:

J.S. Bach, Joni Mitchell, ABBA, Hildegard von Bingen, Tom Verlaine, Toru Takemitsu, The Roches, Leonard Cohen, Philip Catherine, Television, George Van Eps, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Alban Berg, The Pretenders, Terje Rypdal, Radiohead, Art Garfunkel, The Kinks, Kraftwerk, Queen, Jonathan Richman, Jan Garbarek, Be Bop Deluxe, Sparks, Orlando Gibbons, Blind Willie Johnson, Shakti, The Pixies, Django Reinhardt , Percy Grainger, Turbonegro, Blind Tony Poole, The Ramones, The Shaggs, Joseph Spence, Ted Greene, The Clash, Fartein Valen, Bill Nelson, Rolf Harris, Peter Green, Jake Thackery, Dagar Brothers, David Hykes, Lenny Breau, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, Chet Baker, Brian Wilson, Bill Connors, on & on!

Movies:

My Life As A Dog, Il Postino, Life is Beautiful, Being There, Harry & Tonto, any Bergman film, any Kurosawa film, Borat, nearly any Documentary, West Side Story, Shadowlands, Breaking the Waves, countless otheres as well!

Television:

Don't really watch television, but: Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, Da Ali G Show, First Person, Father Ted

Books:

Winnie The Pooh, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce,William Blake, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Shakespeare,Tomas Transtromer, Marie Louise Von Franz, C.G.Jung, John Cage, Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, e.e. cummings, G.I. Gurdjieff, Ramana Maharshi

My Blog

The Inner Life

The Inner Life ~ An Invited Response   Tenderness, In any moment, is a revelation of the inner life.   A delicately suspended water drop at the end of that leafless winter branch evokes a...
Posted by ~John~ on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:35:00 PST

In Praise of Thoughtfulness

Thank you for your kind thoughtfulness  The swift on-rush of time and changing events have a way of interposing their demands and can steadily mute the impulse to ever manifest an inspired a...
Posted by ~John~ on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:33:00 PST