Well sir, i've added you to my list. And only just in the nick, it appears, for the thread we were chewing on has gone. *alas*
Interestingly enuf, i like to choose colors (fore- and background colors) according to different responses i feel about a person, and i chose for you, without realizing it, the exact colors that are on your page. *chuckle* How amusing!
I did not realize that we'd lost Grandpa Munster. He has been a fixture in the back of my brain for decades. In sooth, it does seem like many of my fixtures are dying now. I suddenly feel very old.
I suspect, however, that interacting with *you* will be a very welcome tonic. *smile*
PS: i be capi. This icon is me, only it makes me look younger than is true. *L* Pleasedameetcha!
Yeah, Grandpa was one of the curmudgeons in my life that I just dearly loved. Just like Grandmama in the Adams Family.
Very pleased to meetcha. I tend to write as I feel, speakin my mind, but mostly I just write my stories. Blue, the color you chose, is the color of my eyes when I'm a happy lil clam.
As far as feeling old, ma'am, feeling ain't the same as being, and even if you were 10 years older than your icon (don't see it, but it could be), you've got the open face and smile lines of someone that I can call my friend.
We've got a few friends in common, and I'll tell you, they're good folk, so you are most assuredly welcome!
Ah! There is Journiey, and i see Bruce and Suzi.... *hee* Yup, good people.
As for age, what does it matter *here* anyway? Part of me is ninety, at least some days, and another part is three. I pretty much hang at both ends of the spectrum. *snort*
There are rumors that I'm well over 200, but then, there are rumors that I'll never get past the age of eight. I tend to travel the lines of time back and forth, not really caring what direction I go, but I simply refuse to feel old. At 48, the body sometimes betrays me, but not by much. It's the mind that goes forever wanderin'.
My 30th was in '05. There wasn't much to confess, really. I'm just your average guy, who has been accused of thinking so far outside the box, he doesn't even know where the box is.
I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and believe it's where I'm supposed to be, since every time I've left, I end up back here for one reason or another.
I started writing when I was 19, quit for almost 30 years, and just recently picked it up again in the last 7 years or so. I got tired of being broke on someone else's terms, so I'm going to be broke on mine.
My live is full of stories, adventure, comedy, tragedy. Basically just like every one else's.
I'm a computer geek, with a modicum of knowledge, not exactly top fo my field, and mostly self taught.
I'm cynical, caring, kind to my friends, tend to hole up in my apartment when I'm not at work, and just imagine. I'm a believer in many things, but I know just a very few.
Love does conquer all. Good is better than bad. Friends last longer than lovers.
Rumor has it I'm wise, but I susect I'm more a wise acre. I talk a lot, and I listen more. I'm a communicator, for sure and true, and other than my brother, Sam, I'm the last of my family.
My life is an open book. Ask, and ye shall be answered. Just be careful what you ask, because the answer is always there.
I will take you at your word and ask often and much. And sadly, i tend not to ask carefully because i really do want to know. You will find me insatiable in many ways if we be the kind of friends i suspect we are capable of being.
Thank you for all the answers so far. I love what i see, excepting the cynical part.... because i've found that far too often, cynical equates with hurt and maybe bitter, and that's very sad. It is often used as a wall of defense, alas. I prefer to see healing happen. OTOH, i have been wrong before. Maybe you are happily cynical? Show me!
The other thing is you being holed up, which suggested a hermit-y life. Is that right? I'm making leaps based on assumptions here, mostly so you'll give me more to know you better. *grin*
Wise acre. Wow. I have not heard that term in a very very long time. I very much enjoy hearing terms that are mostly not used now, things that ignite memories. *grin* Thank you. You may freely speak here, and i will savor it. Deal?
And.....
Do you have questions? There is much to you, and there is much to me. My postings are largely mundane trivial little things, because my life is restricted at present to a very small sphere (except for the cyber world!). Now and then, however, something bursts out. Mostly this is private, between myself and another, but sometimes, it is fairly public. Thing is, it's very unpredictable.
Were you aware of Zach last summer, the young gaye man who came out to his parents and went thru "Love In Action" afterwards? THIS sort of thing captures my focus and.... and you never know what might come next. Otherwise, i'm a mom, a wife, and a counselor. Oh, and a rennie. *heh* Questions?
Being cynical is my reaction in defense of my normally gullible and naive attitude. In creating humor from my disillusionment, the phrases I create tend to come across as cynically based, though in truth, they are more poking fun at myself. Were I to hurt another person's ego, I would feel terrible. This is not to say that I've not been hurt, and this not to say that there are things that leave a bitter taste in my mouth, but I still prefer being cheerful over not. Give me play or Give me death. Which may be my greatest adventure of all, but I'll wait for it, if it comes.
I would say, the best way to understand the workings of me, is to read my stories, which is most of what I post. I have, on occasion, written about my daily life, but not all that much. There have been a few tragedies and some excitements I have shared, but mostly I figure the things that go on in my life are rather ordinary.
Yes, I tend to hermit away, but then, my life is comprised of work, home, writing and working to keep family and friends safe from harm. There are common oddities in life that cannot be explained, but simply experienced. I don't have an auto, so my movement is rather limited. Consequently I hang at home a lot, and write, or imagine.
The best way to get to know folks is not from question and answer. It's from exposure. So, in truth, as you said earlier, if you stay with me, you'll find a man who is, all at once, very old, very young, highly dissapointed in the world and also very hopeful. This does not preclude you from asking, and I'll answer to the best of my ability.
As for what I am, I'm a dreamer, an ex wizard, a comedian, a writer, an ordained minister with a non denomiation organization. I've done counseling, am married, raised hundreds of children through their teenage years, did live theater for 35 years before my lateshift work caused me to retire. I've been to two Ren Faires, and I fully expect to go to a great many more.
I love role play, truely I do. And I believe that LIFE is the ultimate role play.
I didn't know of a Zach, but I have known many folks that are openly gay, and I admire the courage to do so, but I'm saddened that it requires and act of courage rather than just simple declaration. Perhaps I'm maddened as well, as I think the human race should be mature enough to not even care.
What is Love In Action, other than the way it should be anyway?
This is a think i'd lost when i was healthy and working. (My career was school counseling, mostly in a ghetto school, but also in some other interesting locations.) I was overwhelmed with the magnitude of my work, and had grown far too serious. Becoming ill, i suddenly had time to free the joy. Seems odd, but there it is.
I will read your stories. As i said, i'm not sure how far *back* i'll go, but i'll surely keep up with daily installments. The very first one was..... high-impact.
I do hope they are not ALL like that one! *whew* Capi has to keep stress down. *smile*
This is not to say i did not enjoy it, k? You are saying i will know you better for reading these? I am hoping this is true, but then again, i do like the more direct method, too. Can i please have it ALL? *grin*
This paragraph "As for what I am, I'm a dreamer, an ex wizard, a comedian, a writer, an ordained minister with a non denomiation organization. I've done counseling, am married, raised hundreds of children through their teenage years, did live theater for 35 years before my lateshift work caused me to retire. I've been to two Ren Faires, and I fully expect to go to a great many more." raises a b'zillion questions. An "ex-wizard"?? Oh, please explain! and hundreds of kids?? Oh please? More more!! Interestingly enuf, i have a fairly extensive theatrical background, as well. And i've been a rennie for..... *calculates then throws the calculator across the room* ...a very long time. *grin* We have some BIG things in common!
Role-play is healthy and good. In balance, of course. RL needs to have it's place. *L* I wonder if todays children will be able to do that.
I agree with you about the whole gaye thing. I'm a very fundamental, right-wing Christian, but i completely disagree with the church on this issue. Human nature seems to seek out ways to hate, ways to *justify* hate, and that, imho, is a thing to fight and resist with everything we have.
Zach is sixteen. He blogged in panic when he came out to his folks, and a few times after that, and then he was locked away in this Love in Action program for two months or so. He had utterly captured my heart with his situation and his anguish. Love in Action is a place run by right-wing fundamentalist Christians and one of the primary goals there is to *cure* homosexuals. *meltdown* Zach was unable to communicate with the world during this time, and a HUGE "following" emerged, all in support of him. However, with no input from him, you can see much of it was based on emotion and speculation, and the picture is yet unclear.
Zach is now attending his normal high school and his friends do not discuss this with him. I have managed to make contact with him and nurture a tiny budding friendship, but the whole thing is fragile, and i move slowly. I pray for healing and growth for the lad, and for his family. The emotional impact of all this was very high this past summer.
*wonders how lucid that account was*
Any road, I am in Sacramento. I became disabled via the nasty toxic mold you have heard about, and now have CFIDS (chronic fatigue etc) and it has altered everything for me. I have not worked since '97 and there is really no chance of my returning to my previous career. This does not mean i will never heal. That part remains unknown. But the nervous system apparently does not recover even if the rest does. *feh* So. I'm home. I have a 15 year old son who now has a mom devoted solely to him (without 500 siblings every year contending for my attention), and a husband who works away from home part of each week. We are very ordinary. *grin* And very not.
And who is to say that Character cannot be lovely? I'm a short balding gnome of a person, bespectacled and generally grumpy. I know lovely, as it's something that will either make me laugh, make me cry, or make me just go 'Hmmmm' with warm fuzzy. You fall into the latter.
There's lovely, and then there's lovely. I suspect that you know precisely what i mean when i turn lovely in for character. I've had a full and adventurous live, and now i rest a lot. Alas. But the character remains, and grows, even!
FWIW, if you stay with me, i will make you laugh AND cry and go "hmmmm" with warm fuzzies. Promise.
You and i sound like very similar, very different folk. I love that. So much to discover!
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:31 am (UTC)Interestingly enuf, i like to choose colors (fore- and background colors) according to different responses i feel about a person, and i chose for you, without realizing it, the exact colors that are on your page. *chuckle* How amusing!
I did not realize that we'd lost Grandpa Munster. He has been a fixture in the back of my brain for decades. In sooth, it does seem like many of my fixtures are dying now. I suddenly feel very old.
I suspect, however, that interacting with *you* will be a very welcome tonic. *smile*
PS: i be capi. This icon is me, only it makes me look younger than is true. *L* Pleasedameetcha!
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:42 am (UTC)Very pleased to meetcha. I tend to write as I feel, speakin my mind, but mostly I just write my stories. Blue, the color you chose, is the color of my eyes when I'm a happy lil clam.
As far as feeling old, ma'am, feeling ain't the same as being, and even if you were 10 years older than your icon (don't see it, but it could be), you've got the open face and smile lines of someone that I can call my friend.
We've got a few friends in common, and I'll tell you, they're good folk, so you are most assuredly welcome!
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:54 am (UTC)As for age, what does it matter *here* anyway? Part of me is ninety, at least some days, and another part is three. I pretty much hang at both ends of the spectrum. *snort*
You?
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:59 am (UTC)One of the mottos is 'If it aint fun, why do it?'
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Date: 2006-02-05 03:56 pm (UTC)So. Who is this fascinating man, where is he, and.... pretend you are sending in your life synopsis for your 30 year class reunion. *grin*
Mine will be on me shortly, and i dare say yours is this year, unless it was last year, eh? What would you confess to them?
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Date: 2006-02-05 11:44 pm (UTC)I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and believe it's where I'm supposed to be, since every time I've left, I end up back here for one reason or another.
I started writing when I was 19, quit for almost 30 years, and just recently picked it up again in the last 7 years or so. I got tired of being broke on someone else's terms, so I'm going to be broke on mine.
My live is full of stories, adventure, comedy, tragedy. Basically just like every one else's.
I'm a computer geek, with a modicum of knowledge, not exactly top fo my field, and mostly self taught.
I'm cynical, caring, kind to my friends, tend to hole up in my apartment when I'm not at work, and just imagine. I'm a believer in many things, but I know just a very few.
Love does conquer all. Good is better than bad. Friends last longer than lovers.
Rumor has it I'm wise, but I susect I'm more a wise acre. I talk a lot, and I listen more. I'm a communicator, for sure and true, and other than my brother, Sam, I'm the last of my family.
My life is an open book. Ask, and ye shall be answered. Just be careful what you ask, because the answer is always there.
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Date: 2006-02-06 12:35 am (UTC)Thank you for all the answers so far. I love what i see, excepting the cynical part.... because i've found that far too often, cynical equates with hurt and maybe bitter, and that's very sad. It is often used as a wall of defense, alas. I prefer to see healing happen. OTOH, i have been wrong before. Maybe you are happily cynical? Show me!
The other thing is you being holed up, which suggested a hermit-y life. Is that right? I'm making leaps based on assumptions here, mostly so you'll give me more to know you better. *grin*
Wise acre. Wow. I have not heard that term in a very very long time. I very much enjoy hearing terms that are mostly not used now, things that ignite memories. *grin* Thank you. You may freely speak here, and i will savor it. Deal?
And.....
Do you have questions? There is much to you, and there is much to me. My postings are largely mundane trivial little things, because my life is restricted at present to a very small sphere (except for the cyber world!). Now and then, however, something bursts out. Mostly this is private, between myself and another, but sometimes, it is fairly public. Thing is, it's very unpredictable.
Were you aware of Zach last summer, the young gaye man who came out to his parents and went thru "Love In Action" afterwards? THIS sort of thing captures my focus and.... and you never know what might come next. Otherwise, i'm a mom, a wife, and a counselor. Oh, and a rennie. *heh* Questions?
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Date: 2006-02-06 01:52 am (UTC)I would say, the best way to understand the workings of me, is to read my stories, which is most of what I post. I have, on occasion, written about my daily life, but not all that much. There have been a few tragedies and some excitements I have shared, but mostly I figure the things that go on in my life are rather ordinary.
Yes, I tend to hermit away, but then, my life is comprised of work, home, writing and working to keep family and friends safe from harm. There are common oddities in life that cannot be explained, but simply experienced. I don't have an auto, so my movement is rather limited. Consequently I hang at home a lot, and write, or imagine.
The best way to get to know folks is not from question and answer. It's from exposure. So, in truth, as you said earlier, if you stay with me, you'll find a man who is, all at once, very old, very young, highly dissapointed in the world and also very hopeful. This does not preclude you from asking, and I'll answer to the best of my ability.
As for what I am, I'm a dreamer, an ex wizard, a comedian, a writer, an ordained minister with a non denomiation organization. I've done counseling, am married, raised hundreds of children through their teenage years, did live theater for 35 years before my lateshift work caused me to retire. I've been to two Ren Faires, and I fully expect to go to a great many more.
I love role play, truely I do. And I believe that LIFE is the ultimate role play.
I didn't know of a Zach, but I have known many folks that are openly gay, and I admire the courage to do so, but I'm saddened that it requires and act of courage rather than just simple declaration. Perhaps I'm maddened as well, as I think the human race should be mature enough to not even care.
What is Love In Action, other than the way it should be anyway?
And where is it that you live?
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Date: 2006-02-06 05:05 pm (UTC)PLAY!!!!!
This is a think i'd lost when i was healthy and working. (My career was school counseling, mostly in a ghetto school, but also in some other interesting locations.) I was overwhelmed with the magnitude of my work, and had grown far too serious. Becoming ill, i suddenly had time to free the joy. Seems odd, but there it is.
I will read your stories. As i said, i'm not sure how far *back* i'll go, but i'll surely keep up with daily installments. The very first one was..... high-impact.
I do hope they are not ALL like that one! *whew* Capi has to keep stress down. *smile*
This is not to say i did not enjoy it, k? You are saying i will know you better for reading these? I am hoping this is true, but then again, i do like the more direct method, too. Can i please have it ALL? *grin*
This paragraph "As for what I am, I'm a dreamer, an ex wizard, a comedian, a writer, an ordained minister with a non denomiation organization. I've done counseling, am married, raised hundreds of children through their teenage years, did live theater for 35 years before my lateshift work caused me to retire. I've been to two Ren Faires, and I fully expect to go to a great many more." raises a b'zillion questions. An "ex-wizard"?? Oh, please explain! and hundreds of kids?? Oh please? More more!! Interestingly enuf, i have a fairly extensive theatrical background, as well. And i've been a rennie for..... *calculates then throws the calculator across the room* ...a very long time. *grin* We have some BIG things in common!
Role-play is healthy and good. In balance, of course. RL needs to have it's place. *L* I wonder if todays children will be able to do that.
I agree with you about the whole gaye thing. I'm a very fundamental, right-wing Christian, but i completely disagree with the church on this issue. Human nature seems to seek out ways to hate, ways to *justify* hate, and that, imho, is a thing to fight and resist with everything we have.
Zach is sixteen. He blogged in panic when he came out to his folks, and a few times after that, and then he was locked away in this Love in Action program for two months or so. He had utterly captured my heart with his situation and his anguish. Love in Action is a place run by right-wing fundamentalist Christians and one of the primary goals there is to *cure* homosexuals. *meltdown* Zach was unable to communicate with the world during this time, and a HUGE "following" emerged, all in support of him. However, with no input from him, you can see much of it was based on emotion and speculation, and the picture is yet unclear.
Zach is now attending his normal high school and his friends do not discuss this with him. I have managed to make contact with him and nurture a tiny budding friendship, but the whole thing is fragile, and i move slowly. I pray for healing and growth for the lad, and for his family. The emotional impact of all this was very high this past summer.
*wonders how lucid that account was*
Any road, I am in Sacramento. I became disabled via the nasty toxic mold you have heard about, and now have CFIDS (chronic fatigue etc) and it has altered everything for me. I have not worked since '97 and there is really no chance of my returning to my previous career. This does not mean i will never heal. That part remains unknown. But the nervous system apparently does not recover even if the rest does. *feh* So. I'm home. I have a 15 year old son who now has a mom devoted solely to him (without 500 siblings every year contending for my attention), and a husband who works away from home part of each week. We are very ordinary. *grin* And very not.
What else?
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Date: 2006-02-05 05:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-05 03:54 pm (UTC)(( hug ))
Thank you.
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Date: 2006-02-05 11:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-06 12:18 am (UTC)FWIW, if you stay with me, i will make you laugh AND cry and go "hmmmm" with warm fuzzies. Promise.
You and i sound like very similar, very different folk. I love that. So much to discover!
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:36 am (UTC)*smile* Yay!
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-05 04:50 am (UTC)