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Avid reader, jazz musician, philosopher, chef, stone mason, carpenter, writer, painter, poet,humanist, teacher, holistic ethicist who believes consciousness and love pervade the universe, except among self-obsessed humans. I perceive the philosophical unified field to be consciousness and joy. The entire universe is composed of waves, which we surf by understanding. Worked and marched for CORE in the 60's. Built 100-ft., 80-ton sculpture on Pratt Beach, Chicago. Planted trees in Oregon. Solo canoed Illinois, Mississippi, Chicago, Rock, Missouri and Wisconsin Rivers. My big thrill as a kid was building small rockets, archery, cruising my woods and going to the Birdhouse on weekends to see the Miles Davis Quintet and many other Jazz Greats.
I was in San Francisco in '65, '66, '67, and '68. Built Burr Tillstrom's puppet theater for Kukla, Fran, and Ollie at WTTW, Channel 11, Chicago. Briefly taught stage carpentry at De Paul Univ. Technical Director one season at Oak Park Shakespeare Festival.
Played trumpet in many small jazz bands, Sextessence, Nova Express. Played on road tour with rock band and many union and studio gigs. Lived with the Rasta in Blue Mountains, Jamaica.
Drove millions of accident-free miles Over the Road in big trucks, 48 states and Canada.
Currently living alone, caring for four rescued animals, one of which a kitten I recently found 'helpless as a kitten up a tree', abandoned in a city park. He came down to my call, so we folded him into the family. Without someone to care for life makes little sense. All reason is born of the heart. As Maya Angelou wrote, "Love holds the stars in their courses."
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 25, 2010 Only Vampires Live In Darkness
My thoughts, commented in the New York Times, on long-term US geo-political strategy.
(13 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 21, 2010 Petroleum is Pervasive
144 items made with oil, out of six thousand and probably some we haven't thought of. Oil is pervasive.
SHARE Friday, February 19, 2010 Rule of the Undead
Our nation has become hag-ridden by ghouls. Zombies, Undead run our commerce, our media, our government and take the costs off their taxes as a business expense.
SHARE Monday, January 18, 2010 the arc of consciousness
No matter the crisis, peace, love and understanding are a stock to watch.
The geometric growth of scientific knowledge in the last fifty years is a phenomenon of Nature, Human Nature.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 10, 2010 Whiny Liberals Get Real Pony, Reject Shovel
Progressives, of all people, must display fierce loyalty and unconquerable, indomitable courage in support of their man in the Whitehouse. The GOP is the alternative.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 10, 2009 A National Insanity
Insane policy drives army doctor and many citizens crazy.
(13 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 26, 2009 The End of Hunting and Fishing in the Wild
Humanity must now take responsibility for its own future. As the provident, not the parasitic, we will gain the stars.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 12, 2009 Joe Wilson is no Joe
For Addison Graves to run for public office as "joe" is a deception steeped in cynicism.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 8, 2009 For Some, the Dark Ages Never Ended.
The Dark Ages still live in the minds of the willfully ignorant and the shameless plundering murderers of the light of reason.