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TapRoot Manuscript
Created on 2005-11-13 13:55:07 (#8786975), last updated 2009-06-26
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Basic Info| Name: | eternaltraveler |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1943-09-26 |
| Location: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States |
Bio"The road goes ever ever on, out from the door where it began. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
I am an old man, an anachronism and a contradiction in terms. I have the dust of too many miles ground into the soles of my boots and have seen both the beginning and the end of too many things. I have outlived many of my friends, most of my family and on one unforgettable day, I have outlived myself.
The other side of that coin is that there is a seventeen year old me that lives on inside and he is a sonofabitch. He is never ever far beneath the surface and is the part of me responsible for getting me into most of the trouble that I find myself in. He is horny, mischivous, playful, irresponsible, prone to leap before he looks and a hell raiser of the first rank. He can be a real pain in the ass. He is also the part of me that keeps hope, dreams and a belief in the future alive. He is in many ways both the best and the worst that is in me and I love him dearly. I believe that if he were to grow up or leave or be somehow killed off, it woud diminish me greatly and I would begin counting my remaining days rather than living them.
I am, or at least see myself as a curious mixture of mundane and spiritual, optimist and realist, believer and skeptic. My way of being in the world frequently seems to preclude the possibility of being of it. I am a healer, a nurturer and an empath. These are my gifts but like all gifts, each is a double edged sword. I and others must exercise care and caution when in their presence. My surname is Germanic but my fey is Celtic and I feel that in some small part, the blood of the "Old Ones" somehow runs through my veins.
The range of my interests seems to be nearly universal. Interests in philosophy, religion, poetry, art, sociology and para-normal phenomena coexist with an interest in cooking, caligraphy, the various incarnations of martial arts, Photography and an inordinate love of the music and mystique of the Grateful Dead. My range of interest has on occasion led others to name me a Renaissance Man. There may be some element of truth in that, for I am a RenFaire Freak as well.
My first love is the Written Word which I will eagerly consume in any form.
My second love is the Spoken Word and I will engage in conversation on almost any topic with almost anybody at almost any time.
I am most assuredly, simply human and all that that implies. Both good and bad, gifted and flawed, giving and greedy dichotomy ad infinitum.
I am also a Libra. True to that image, the point of my life seems to be in finding and maintaining that point of balance between all of my opposite extremes and to center around that. As you will see, on some days I am better at that than on others.
I have called this journal TapRoot Manuscript. Each entry is a slice of my feeling and my experience in the NOW of this life. A frozen moment in time. It should be nothing more and nothing less than that to anyone. To me, these entries are personal markers along my path that I have chosen to share for reasons of my own.
Read or do not. Comment or do not. Understand or do not.
I place no restriction on what I may write here.
I place no restriction on what response that may elicit.
Communication is the bridge that links our "Island Selves"
together and gives us each the opportunity to
become more than the sum of our parts.
Sleep deep and Dream well.
I am an old man, an anachronism and a contradiction in terms. I have the dust of too many miles ground into the soles of my boots and have seen both the beginning and the end of too many things. I have outlived many of my friends, most of my family and on one unforgettable day, I have outlived myself.
The other side of that coin is that there is a seventeen year old me that lives on inside and he is a sonofabitch. He is never ever far beneath the surface and is the part of me responsible for getting me into most of the trouble that I find myself in. He is horny, mischivous, playful, irresponsible, prone to leap before he looks and a hell raiser of the first rank. He can be a real pain in the ass. He is also the part of me that keeps hope, dreams and a belief in the future alive. He is in many ways both the best and the worst that is in me and I love him dearly. I believe that if he were to grow up or leave or be somehow killed off, it woud diminish me greatly and I would begin counting my remaining days rather than living them.
I am, or at least see myself as a curious mixture of mundane and spiritual, optimist and realist, believer and skeptic. My way of being in the world frequently seems to preclude the possibility of being of it. I am a healer, a nurturer and an empath. These are my gifts but like all gifts, each is a double edged sword. I and others must exercise care and caution when in their presence. My surname is Germanic but my fey is Celtic and I feel that in some small part, the blood of the "Old Ones" somehow runs through my veins.
The range of my interests seems to be nearly universal. Interests in philosophy, religion, poetry, art, sociology and para-normal phenomena coexist with an interest in cooking, caligraphy, the various incarnations of martial arts, Photography and an inordinate love of the music and mystique of the Grateful Dead. My range of interest has on occasion led others to name me a Renaissance Man. There may be some element of truth in that, for I am a RenFaire Freak as well.
My first love is the Written Word which I will eagerly consume in any form.
My second love is the Spoken Word and I will engage in conversation on almost any topic with almost anybody at almost any time.
I am most assuredly, simply human and all that that implies. Both good and bad, gifted and flawed, giving and greedy dichotomy ad infinitum.
I am also a Libra. True to that image, the point of my life seems to be in finding and maintaining that point of balance between all of my opposite extremes and to center around that. As you will see, on some days I am better at that than on others.
I have called this journal TapRoot Manuscript. Each entry is a slice of my feeling and my experience in the NOW of this life. A frozen moment in time. It should be nothing more and nothing less than that to anyone. To me, these entries are personal markers along my path that I have chosen to share for reasons of my own.
Read or do not. Comment or do not. Understand or do not.
I place no restriction on what I may write here.
I place no restriction on what response that may elicit.
Communication is the bridge that links our "Island Selves"
together and gives us each the opportunity to
become more than the sum of our parts.
Sleep deep and Dream well.
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