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Relationship

Married. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

Hometown

Too small to mention!

Places I've been

Iceland, Grand Cayman Island, Africa, Japan, Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Malta, Canada, Aruba, Cancun, Belize, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. John, Antigua, St Martin, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Maine, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, New York...

More about me

I'm "middle path happy" - satisfied with my lot in life. I'm from a small town and I'm a hard worker. I spent half of my life living in a rural area surrounded by abandoned mines and semi- agriculture, a quarter in the burbs, and now I'm an urban dweller.

Trips to my beloved Caribbean with my Sweetie keep me hopeful that there is more to life than my $25 Peugeot Salt Mill... NOT THAT I don't very much appreciate my salt mill, it's just that I do not want material goods and clutter taking over. Once I was an avid shopper, but no longer.

Since watching a documentary about the treatment of Tibetian's by the Chinese, I've stopped purchasing goods from China - tricky but not impossible if you buy quality not quantity. Like many sustainable products, it costs more initially but pays off over time (even if in the next life)...

 It's taken half a life to practice what's important to me:

    -Mindfulness;

    -Right Speech; and

    -Being "Squared Away" as they say in the Navy.

Since rennovating our kitchen, my sweetie and I do more cooking than eating out. I know where most of the products used in the rennovation were made - the stainless, the granite, the lighting, the accessories. For example, my cabinets were made in Amish Country by a company that uses their waste products to power their business (waste to energy).

I'm a little bored by folks who ask me what I do immediatly upon meeting. Not that the work we choose isn't important, it's just not very creative to dive into the details of ones "ways and means" before anything else. I agree with a friend (who is also a co-author with me) who thinks this question upon meeting is so perfunctory a Q as to contribute to brain death. 

My aforementioned friend and I are publishing a coffe table book called "What do YOU do" that has a fluffy pink cover and "pop out" figures in various social settings. One person asks the question "What do you do" and the other person answers. Of course each scenario provides a whitty retort to the ever tacky question. For example, one pop up is of a blousy, female prostitute pearched on the edge of her bar stool, (scantily clad of course) next to a Congressman who asks the question.... SO WHAT DO YOU DO. The prostitue doesn't respond verbally rather, with a look of disbelief gives him one raised eyebrow.

 Anyway, enough about me!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activities

sleeeeping, eating, yoga, jogging, resistance training, wind surfing, snow sking, working, reading, pets, marital bliss ( ;

Favorite Charities

Siamese Rescue

Favorite Music

Copa Aesthetics, Manuel Barrueco, Moby, Layo and Bushwacka, Nazareth, Gary Wright, Mary J Blige, Hugh Masakala, k.d lang, Hossam Ramzey, Frank Zappa, Cowboy Junkies, Cirque du Soleil, Bootsy Collins, Anoushka and Ravi Shankar, Alabama 3, Enya.

Favorite TV Shows

The Office, South Park, 30 Rock, Mad TV, Living Color.

Favorite Movies

Pet Detective, Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, School of Rock,

Favorite Books

Rare Earth, Knlup, Meeting Faith, This Precious Life, Silent Spring, Edge of Taos Desert An Escape to Reality,

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