A Short Paragraph About You

[gurdonark]

An on-line friend from Goteburg sent me two samples of a Swedish instrument called a nyckelharpa. It's got a great sound--like a cross among a zither, a fiddle, a dulcimer and something indefinable. I'm using it to mine samples to slice, but I admire the samples as they stand now, unadorned.

Today marked another very busy day. I am tired.

The newspaper advised that this January is the most rainy since 1898. We do extremes well where I live. Other places are warmer, other places are colder, but we have compelling contrasts.

I like a meme that is going around the internet these days. I'm impressed, too, with the aplomb people bring to this meme.
Thus, I'm going to incorporate that meme into this post, and issue you an invitation:

I'd be delighted to write you a short paragraph about how cool you are, and what I like about you and your journal. There are but three rules:

a. you may not write back to deny any compliments paid;
b. you need not duplicate my feat in your journal;
c. you shall not turn inot a winged monkey.

I reserve the right to:

a. write a long paragraph, or more than one
b. wax effusively
c. go off on tangents
d. give unexpected praise

As you know, I like to start these things with a silly word in reply.

If you are interested, could you reply--

"All about me"

Comments

[kayre]

All about me.

But turning into a winged monkey sounds kind of fun! *pout*

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

You know, I've thought a time or two about the phrase "Mennonite seminary", which is, if you ask my opinion, a mellifluous expression which is so evocative, and yet down-to-earth in some basic way. I like that you pursue both the non-literal and the day-to-day with equal
force.

I like your photographs, and I'm impressed by some of the nature shots you manage to get. I'm so impressed that you play the organ and church music, as I know that this can require not only musical talent, but also a talent for withstanding and connecting the milieu of folks around one.

I like the story about how your family "took up riding" from scratch, because your daughter wanted to pursue that avocation. I grew up around a few people who had horses--just a bit--and I don't have any of that romantic friend-flicka feeling about them, but instead know they're not only a pleasure but a tremendous responsibility. Yet your daughter pursued that hobby with your support, and I think that's cool.

I like that you're very tolerant and open-minded, notwithstanding that your own values may differ from the values of others you encounter. I also like the way you've
really appreciaed the good things in your recent move--that seems to me to be a real set of changes for a family, but you're in there pitching.

No flying monkey wings, please.

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

All about me! (but I don't think you know much about me :) )

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I don't feel as if I know you very well at all. I like the way that in weblogs we often learn what we know in tiny increments, one small step at a time.

I like that you're a keen observer. I think that you see a lot of things around you, and yet you don't make everything into needless melodrama ("needful melodrama"? well, maybe it's an outside possibility. but never the needless kind).

I like that you seem to appreciate the good things about living in Texas as well as the less than perfect things.
I like that you're in an academic setting--I've always got an interest in the ivy towers. I like to read your take on political/social things, and I like the way you're down-to-earth but well-read., which should always go together, in my opinino, but aft gang agley, or some such.

I like the sense that I'll learn more as I read, and yet your journal is not some cipher-festival,but a weblog about a real person.

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

All about me. (Or, a little about me.)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I like your drive. When you were writing your comic, you approached them with a real focus--as if you didn't want to just create your characters, but would see them as people.

At the same time, I like that you can change gears and directions. When one set of pursuits outlives its usefulness, you head into a different set of creative pursuits.

I like that you pursue creative pursuits, as I think that's a worthwhile thing to do. I've followed with interest your placement of your story.

Your journal is consistently readable. I like that you're fond of animals. I like that even though things aren't always entirely easy for you, your journal is not a complaint-fest but just a day to day person's experience.

[gracegiver]

You rock. (will that do?)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I like that you're so full of life. You seem comfortable with yourself, even though you've had times in your past which made you feel less sure of yourself than you feel now. You have a wide variety of interests. I like that you have a strongly spiritual side, but that you live in a very real world. I like that you're very caring, and that you have a joy of living. I like that you don't see sadness as unavoidable but as inevitable and as part of the way of living. I like that you recognize your self-doubts and don't let them warp you. You're a cool person.

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

All About Me

(There was a cool Dr. Seuss book by that title - one of those seventies do-it-yourself things.)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I like the way that you try really hard, even when you don't feel like trying. I like that you've been pursuing a graduate degree in the liberal arts, when so many people in life might hypothetically pipe up to tell you to do something safer and simpler. I like that you had a child at a grown-up age, and that you've taken such delight in her.

I think you're very bright and witty, and that you have a huge caring streak. I think that you're probably a lot more self-aware than you were a decade ago, which is not an evolution that happens for everyone.

I like the way that, deep down, I think that you recognize that life is not perfect, and that you make of it what you can. I like that you try consciously to balance faith and compassion with the tugs and pulls of life. I like that you're so loyal to your family members. I like that your heart appears on your sleeve a surprising amount of the time.

I like that you keep getting up, after things that knock you down. I like that you're going to keep on slogging, and my wish for you is that you slog on through, and don't let the bastards get you down.

I like that you went on a kind of detective search of self-discovery, and discovered, perhaps, that what you discovered was not so much you as a piece of history, of great interest, but not really the field upon which the ballgame of your life is played.

I like that you have high standards of yourself and of others. I like that you know that you have to cut people slack sometimes anyway.

If the world were populated by clones of you, it might not be a perfect world, but it would be a better world.

[trshtwns01.livejournal.com]

"All about me"

I love the way you write, which is probably also behind your caveat about waxing effusively :) I do wonder how much you feel you know about me. We live so close, yet know each other only through LJ.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the kind words.

I like that you worked through to advance your education, and that you cope with physical challenges that might daunt others. I like that you're such a caring and loyal parent.

I like that you write with a voice that sounds like you have a lot of common sense. I like that we live not ten miles from one another, and yet we don't in some ways live in the same places at all.

I like that you get on the school website and check out the rules. I like that you don't see your life as bogged down, but instead as moving forward. I find your journal a solid, easy read, no matter how little I know!

All about me...

[espvivisection.livejournal.com]

...too.

Re: All about me...

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about you just the other day. You know, I went to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, from 1981 through 1984. I cannot say enough good and kind things about my law school. But my school was then, and is now, the second law school in a small rural state.
In the very early 1980s, when I went, the legal market was seen as relatively stagnant. The federal government had a hiring freeze. Only oil companies were hiring. Ruinous tax cuts were on the verge of creating a bubble, but the outlooks was not good. Entry level jobs did not pay very much money.

Notwithstanding those various hurdles, virtually all of my classmates got jobs out of law school. I don't mean just people who had good grades--we got a bit better jobs, or a clerkship. I mean the average C student (our median GPA was 2.67). My friend Mark had no tremendous family advantages--his folks ran a bakery. His grades were not stellar. Yet Mark became one of his region's respected public defenders, and sometimes sits by appointment as an appellate judge.
Students below the top of my class are now judges, trial lawyers (civil, criminal, family), and transactional lawyers. It's true that the road for them sometimes involved some "building up to it" in the first year or two after school. But these folks earned livings from the law, even when the rumours in our time--as in this--was that anyone not on law review was doomed.

I like that you have come so far. You got yourself through college. You married a guy you love. You even embarked on law school. I've been rooting for you, as I remember the decision to go to law school as a very difficult one, and yet one of the best decisions I have made.

I like that you're socially aware, and that you're inquisitive. I like your Texas roots. I like that you're into great music and that as an RA, you were so supportive of your charges/friends. I like that you have a creative bent, and I like your writing style.

If I could help you with advice or encouragement, because you're on the side of the angels and deserve supporters in your corner. I like that you play chess. I like that you're
kind about complimenting a journal post or two of mine in the past.

It's so easy to find things in 1L year to fret one, or make one lose hope. I want you to gain hope, because you're a person for whom hope should spring eternal.

[spleenless.livejournal.com]

Massage my ego, it's all about ME ;-)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I like that you work in social work. My respect for you increased when I found that you do this work without an MSW, because I know what difficult work it is, and to work yourself into it shows real initiative. I like that even though you've been dealt a few cards in your hand which
are strictly "pass" rather than "4 spades", you never spend your life in bitter "what if". You just keep on plowing. I like that you really like your kids, eccentricities and all, and that you remember being a kid. My wife and I both thought you were really nice when we met you in MD.

I think that you're a really good person. You're the sort to stand by people. I think you're loyal, and brass-tacks.
I think that you're very solid, when it might have been tempting in life to be more flaky.

You're probably not the person I'd appoint to run a country club, if I were Donald Trump, because you'd always want to be giving the garden staff sauna privileges. But you'd be a great team leader for any worthy work, though I doubt you see yourself as a chief so much as someone who rolls up her sleeves.

You write a good journal, and you always say "later gator". who could ask for more?

[reneesarah.livejournal.com]

all about me

(the winged monkey did sound like fun!)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I like that you're always hunting for the right way to be of the most use. I like that you genuinely care about your clients. I like that you dealt very admirably with the misfortune of a bit of unemployment. I think you're rolled some rocks up some hills in life, seen them come back down, and then rolled them up to find, un-sisyphus-like, thta
you can get them to stay up after all.

I like that you are so very loyal to and supportive of your mom. I like to read about your day to day. I like that you're always dealing with bureaucracy. I like that you appreciate nature.

I always meant to get together with you for a cup of coffee when I was in the bay area, but never did--I'm pretty boring during business travel that way. But my thought is that you're an interesting person, and worthy of a good conversation or a journal peruse and comment.

[laruth.livejournal.com]

All about me! ;)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I have a special place in my heart for you. I don't know what it is. We come from entirely different places, and we are not similar people. Yet there's something in your story to which I can always relate. Perhaps it's that you came from a really traditional family, and you've branched out to reject some of that tradition, but not the parts of it you consider real and valuable. I come from a family far less strict than yours, but where I come from, a certain way of living and being with a respect for tradition came with the territory.

I like that you're striving to be the best you can be at what you do, and I love your idealism. I envy your computer and web skills. I like that although you're not really "one of the boys", you like gamer-type things. I like to read about the trips you and A. take, and even the minutiae of the restaurants at which you eat. It's not some "intrigued spectator" thing, as you and I are virtually different generations. I take some comfort in life from knowing that there are people out there trying really hard and just flat out living the best they can.

I love that you sing in a singing group. It's just cool! I like that you and A. fly stunt kites, and take great trips, and are building a life together. You're just one of the good guys in life--self-doubts and setbacks and all. Of course you're attractive, which makes your pictures a rewarding view, but, frankly, that's a nice thing but very
secondary, because it's your spirit, more than your visage, that interests me.

I can't remember how we "friended", but I'm glad we did.

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

All about me.

I like this twist on the meme!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Thank you for getting me started on this meme.

You have an energy about you that I find entrancing. You're full of life and hopes and dreams--but unlike a lot of other people who are, you're full of practical application to try to make dreams come true. I like your activist streak, and that you take steps to live the things you care about. I like your righteous fire, and your moments of self-assessment. I like the sense that I get that you're putting some of the pieces together, but that you're just puzzling out just where a few fit in the jigsaw. I like that you had a kind of modernist story-book romance. I like that you're
self-contradictory in only good ways. Although I love Texas far more than New York, I like that you moved to the "big city" and studied and then moved there and now you're living a dream. I like your modesty, and your ambition.
I like that you're not all about money, but you're not impractical, either. I like that you're willing to use common-sense to budget and save and try to achieve your dreams.

I like that you're turning out to be a very good writer, and that you're living in a time when there are ways once more for people to earn livings doing day to day writing work. I imagine you launching some great website or writing a revelatory social justice book or getting an advanced degree and professing truth to undergraduates. I see you as having the world before you.

You're at a place of such promise and hope, and my wish for you is that your fire never dies, but just continues burning with brighter, more colorful flames. I always feel self-conscious with your journal, because I think my comments are superfluous to who you are and what you do.
But I enjoy reading about your life, and like to watch you grow as a writer and a person.

[arcanum-dogma.livejournal.com]

All about me.

i reserve the right to debunk all charges in my journal.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

When I think of you, I always think of a kind of pluck. You know,that old-fashioned can-do. I don't mean that you're some Horatio Alger novel--indeed, I don't think you'd make the "earns his quarters and then start a factory of his own" plot go at all.

Instead, I like about you that you are teachable. I suspect that you, like me, believe that people can learn all sorts of things, and they largely must teach themselves. I see your music thing that way--not impressive to me so much in a "wow, he must be incredible" sense, but impressive to me in a "he taught himself how to do this because he's got that can-do thing going".

I get the impression that you're married to someone good for you, and that you're making progress in your life. I have the impression that you cope sometimes with moods that are not always cooperative, but you hang in there and do battle with them.

I don't feel I know you half as well as I should, and perhaps my praise for you tonight is that I wish I knew the other half better.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I like that in your journal, you intersperse personal anecdote with a sense of what's going on in the world around you. You cover a fair bit of ground, but you never seem as if you're "culture-name-dropping". I like the way you write about your feelings and frustrations, even though expressing them is no always your favorite part, or the easiest thing for you. I like that you're bright, and that you are willing to learn. I like that you're self-aware, so that you can see both good things in your life and mistakes you've made. I admired how you hung in there, despite a worrying health alarm. I always want to root for you, just a bit, so that you realize that with your smarts, you can accomplish more things that you give yourself credit for.
I relate to the flaw of self-esteem issues, as I am prey to them myself. I like that whenever I read your journal entries, there's a sense of straightforwardness, even though you're a complicated personality. I don't feel I know you very well, but I like that your journal tells you are directly and without undue pretense.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

all about me.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I am tempted to wax effusively about your poetry, because among all my livejournal friends' work I most consistently find your poetry congenial to my aesthetic taste in such things. I personally would wish, and if it were my business, would suggest, that you embark on an avid submission and contest-entry avocation, as your work deserves to be more widely read.

I like the way that you comment to posts with a sytle that shows you are really reading. I like that you have such great taste in music. I like that you're very open about challenges you face in life, but never seem too "look at me, look at me". You also don't do "poor me", even when you have a right to a bit of concern. You've been a champ to your family in difficult situations, although I'm not sure you see yourself in that light. You are loyal to family and to friends.

I like that you're a seeker whose habitrail has arguably more plastic piping than some seekers'. I like that you are multi-faceted and many-dimensional. I like that you can be down to earth. I like that you'r e nostalgic. I like that you cope with eccentricities in others and yourself with aplomb. I just think you're a rich, vibrant personality ,and I'm glad i know you.

[deb-artist.livejournal.com]

All about me?!!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I like that you write about things that seem "real" to me, and that you post a lot of pictures in your journal. I like that you're very creative, and yet you're a very down to earth person in many ways. I like that you puzzle out
complications in day to day life, and yet your journal is not an endless "complaint and problem" text. I like the sense that you write your journal for you and not to try to make some metaphysical fame point. I like that you're got a good sense of color and an eye that sees the straightforward as well as the complex. I like that you write about places as if they were places.

What a temptation ...

[terabithiabeth.livejournal.com]

... we don't often get an opportunity to so boldly be "all about me". Thanks for the offer.

I rarely post now, but if you remember me at all, have at it.

Re: What a temptation ...

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you asked. I enjoy reading your posts.

It's funny how lawyer fiction, lawyer movies, and lawyer television is so often so unsatisfying, nad yet day to day narratives about lawyering, written without flourish or melodrama, hold the attention. I like your posts about the law, particularly when they are oblique enough that I can guess what you're saying without you quite revealing anything the public ought not know.

I like that you're still very much searching out who you are and where everything fits in your life. I like that you seem to be a sensible person, and that you've got a fairly good grip on yourself, small bursts of temper or frustration notwithstanding.

I like to read you when you post. I think that's the best thing, in some ways, anyone can say about any weblog.

all about me me me me

[asphalteden.livejournal.com]

I'd like to reserve the right to turn into a flying monkey.

You, sir, may monkey around with flying at your leisure

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

When I read your journal, I always feel as if I know the person who is writing the journal, both the things said and the things unsaid. Even though we are so very dissimilar, we start from some common assumptions about reflection, loyalty and seeking out one's own meanings in one's experience.

I'm impressed by your knowledge of music, but not in that Hi Fidelity "gee, I'll bet you know the Eels' third B side" way. I know that some of our figurative gap in musical depth of knowledge arises from age difference, in that my tastes typically at about your age were perhaps a bit more ear-to-the-ground than they are now.

I like that we met through the hypnos.com bulletin board, which, for all its ups and downs, is nonetheless a good housekeeping seal of approval, although I miss the days when ambient stars wrote me to say, as in one instance "your weblog opened the lotus for me", as it is my personal suspicion that weblogs, grand and good things, ever open any loti any more.

I like that you're a family man by habit and choice when it might have been possible, given your evolution, to have chosen different paths. I like that you like your job, and I no doubt have some secret feeling of hidden stardust within because I know a man who does one of the great and good acts of positive good in popular culture, putting out a magazine much more important to me as a classic dissemination of culture than is the New Yorker or Poetry.

I like that you love the Church, not because I love the Church (I merely like them), but because when I read how you love the Church then I know where you are coming from, even if, theoretically speaking, you're the wrong generation to truly love them. Speaking of which, on the plane last night they played a Cure concert and, because robert smith is 45ish and he's still a great performer but he looks ready for pensions, I felt old in a way I rarely do.

I wish I had gotten my wife to go with me last April to the American livebearers Association meeting in New Jersey, sot that we could have met you and your wife. Even allowing for the inherent silences and oddities that attend meeting any virtual friend, I think we'd enjoy that. I have a key client in your state, and someday I'm sure I'll visit there.

I like that you like Ogden Nash. I have enjoyed the care packages you've sent from time to time. I like that I know that you will one day be a differently published writer than you are now, and I like that you really rather know it, too, but know it's not something you need rush, and something that working carefully will make it happen more than talking incessantly about it.

I like that you have an interesting and eclectic mix of livejournal friends, and I doubt I would have met people I find fascinating such as rebirtha but for reading your journal.

I like that you're introspective. I like that you're opinionated. I like that you set up that ambient review site, though I think it's a shame we don't use it more.

I like that you love old movies and classical music and odd german 70s/80s music and that you assemble party ensembles to watch sinbad movies.

I like that you're always open to learn more, but you don't just grab onto facts for anecdoctal value.

I like your pungent and sharp sense of self-effacing humour.

I like the way you take your imperfections and treat them as normalcies.

I loved that you liked the sound of your wife tap-dancing.

I hope you get assigned to take trips to Scandinavia to promote your magazine.

It's been such a pleasure to get to know you, and I could go on for paragraphs more.

[thebigfatman.livejournal.com]

"All about me."



And relating to your penchant for silly words, try this one: "Schtum." It has a variety of nonsense meanings. :)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I'd like to start by saying that I really think the name Lane is unexpected, old-fashioned in a good way, and cool. Prior to the time y'all employed it to name your child, I might have thought it was "too too", but since I've seen you use it in your journal, it's really grown on me as a really cool name.

I like reading about your day to day life, whether it is work foibles or family things, or leisure things. I like the way your weblog will combine this kind of slice-of-life narrative with your thoughts about this or that bigger concern.

I like that you are interested in mail-art-type things, as I am, and I also follow with interest any time you talk about further advanced school/study. I like the way I perceive that you work for the things you want, and that you don't depend on others to make your good fortune, but instead act to work to get the things you want in life.

I'm excited that you're expanding your family, and glad that you have found this day to day bliss.

You're a kind person, and a bright person, and a pleasure to know. We are not very similar, but it's fun to know dissimilar people sometimes.

Also, you wield a mean kazoo!

[whatilove.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm game for what you have to say. :) Feel free to write "all about me".

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

You have a gift for capturing images of the moment. It's not that you're a great photographer, alone, but that you have an eye which is somehow "photographic"--you seek to frame the scene of things, you see the images before you.

You start from a place which perhaps involves less self-confidence than many have,which I can always relate to because in many ways I also start from just such a place.
You don't let that place keep you from pursuing your dreams and creativity. I am so impressed that you embarked on your exciting new venture, and my high and yet fulfillable hope is that you're able to take this path and earn your living this way for life.

Your self-portraits in your 365 thing have been very effective, and you do have a real gift for photographing children.

I don't worry about "will she make real money doing this?" or "will she sometimes have to take a 'day job'", because, almost like a gifted writer of literary fiction, I see you as being a photographer, and the day jobs or economic compromises that may come along are just the equivalent of waitressing until the big breaks come along.

I imagine you teaching others photography, in extension classes at the local community college. I imagine you building a stock collection and licensing shots. I see you in the long run having all this potential and a strong chance of success.

Yet you're more than the pictures you snap. I like that you're on a rather purposeful voyage of self-discovery, and that this involves becoming very self-aware. When I see you living in doubt or worry, I always feel badly. I know that such things are a part of life, and that people just go through what they go through. Yet, I think that sometimes you sell yourself short to yourself, and you don't see how cool you are.

I like that your journal is always clear, and usually filled with gorgeous pictures. I like when you puzzle through the marketing-pricing-economic model aspect of your business, because small business start-ups interest me.

I like that if I had a crystal ball, I'd predict that your time of great personal happiness is just ahead, and it will be fun to read as it unfolds.

[mesawyou.livejournal.com]

It's all about ME!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

It always sounds condescending to be "proud" of someone on one's friends' list, but I'll risk that sad appellation
here.

You have really made impressive, positive strides to take a career path that was once a bit strewn by the wayside and get yourself firmly back on the path. You're back on your own terms, more or less, which is ideal.

I was glad when you sat and passed the bar, which a lot of people would not have been able to easily do, given some of the challenges of the past. I think it's great that you've pursued the entry steps into the career so well, and are now originating clients and helping people. I think that
you have your heart in the rigth place as to wanting to be of service to folks.

I like that, like me, you are from more-or-less rural Arkansas. You "escaped" to the city for a while, and yet, in so many ways, I think that one never truly escapes the locale of one's childhood. My own instinct, by the way, was that I never wanted to leave Arkansas, and thus, of course, I did.

I like your stories about young Breezy, who sounds like a cool dog. I like that you're puzzling out the minefields which are personal and family relationships. I like that you have a good idea of who you want to be, and now it's just living through the times that get you there.

I like the sense I get that you are growing and changing, without losing your sense of self.

"all about me"

[ensenchiridion.livejournal.com]

if course i'm interested... i just feel like a bit of a jackass, asking to hear about myself all the time - but it's so addictive!

Re: "all about me"

[ensenchiridion.livejournal.com]

that's an "of course", of course - and please take your time (i can see you have so many of these to do - we could even take a rain check if you decide you need a break from them before you get to mine)

[wingedsandals.livejournal.com]

All about me!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I like that each of your posts is lucid, well-thought-out, and interesting. I like that you're an interesting person, whose posts or commments,though not frequent, always hold the interest. I like that you celebrate marital happiness, and puzzle over the ways of teenagers. I like that you work in a job some might think a dream job, but that, like all jobs, it has its own stresses and satisfactions. I like that New York suffuses your journal. I like that you're
alive and aware. I think that you're an interesting person, and I'm glad you weblog, if only a bit.

[skygoodwill.livejournal.com]

All About Me?

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

There are a great number of things I like about you. I like your intensity, and your discpline in pursuit of a goal. I like that you have a pragmatic side, so that you are not merely lost in daydreams. I like that you try to define and live by your principles. I like that you spend a great deal of time on self-education---you're one of the most avid autodidacts I know. I like your interest in languages and in history. You always have a good book or three going, and you don't get bogged down on "inside baseball", but try instead to get a world-view from your reading.

I like that you focus on being compassionate in the things that you do. You really do try to figure out what is the right thing to do in each situation. I am not sure that you achieve it each time--who does?, but you really try to do so.

I like that you're a great conversationalist, who enjoys a wide-ranging discussion. I like that you're open to learning, and to expanding your creative expression.
I like that you try new things, whether recording coyotes on your cell phone or flying to places you've never been to fulfill an idea, notion or hope.

I like that you're aware of the things in life you'd like to change, and that you focus lately on how to avoid boxing yourself in so far as to make your life unliveable. I sometimes think you define yourself into a kind of pickle, but I never worry too much about you in the long run, because I think you're incredibly intelligent and can learn. Your sense of the primacy of your own ideas about things makes it better for you to learn on your own, sometimes, even if sometimes this means you learn "the hard way" of experience.

I like that you focus on achieving serenity in your life. I like to read about the way you cook for yourself or seek out relaxing and calming things to do. I like that you've got the right sorts of reticences and the right kinds of boldnesses.

I like that you have a good sense of humour, and that you write with a keen observer's eye. I like that you pursue painting and other creative endeavors.

I like that you have a good head for business and financial independence, and my hope for you is that you utilize both to pursue some new career paths--you're not made for the conventional ways, but I suspect there is a way consistent with who you are that will get you to a more sure fiscal situation.

I like that you appreciate nice things but don't live in a sense of lack and regret. I appreciate that you make the best of things even when things are not the best. I like that you build yourself spaces to inhabit when life has perhaps not delivered as much security for you as it might have done.

I enjoy reading your posts, even though you and I do not always see the same realities in the same ways. I like that you write with a simple yet intellectual bent, and that you're seeking out truth where you can find it.

I think your recent photo series is great. It's very revelatory and really presents you in a good light--not just the images, but the whole concept and execution.

I like your flickr pictures, and your nature photography.
It all ties back to your very good "eye" for such things.

I like that I think you're going to find ways to make things work better for you. I suspect it will take some changes in approach for you, but one of your virtues is that you have an immense capability to learn. My guess is that life will treat you a bit better in the next five years than in the past five, and I wish you as much happiness as anyone could wish for anyone.

I like that you're clever and capable, kind and earnest,
cautious and unfettered, traditonal and unorthodox.

You're a really cool person.

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