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I'm learning to trust the realness of the universe above my own solepsistic machinations. Playing a two-headed 'Mug-Dahl' drum got for $55 at Ten Thousand Villages here in Philadelphia, PA, and looking at the moon directly and observing it's cycles are two examples of activities that I've found helpful, lately (2006). Hand-drumming has long been a hobby, but the balance and circling rhythms encouraged by two opposing heads has begun to verge toward a kind of healing trance...
It occurs to me, my several Blog ... '...zz ..zssz ..zzhzschz might be a more appropriate place to set down such temporary aspects of my being...
Out-pacing cars in the city on my bicycle, as well as simply pushing out energy into and through a smooth-running machine is one of my perennial joys in life. There's a certain correspondence with sex...
Another joy is keeping complex wiring schemes in my head as I connect house power receptacles and light switches, and then having those theoretical/logical models in my head confirmed magically with that oh-so-satisfyingly tactile click of a light-switch (connected with a light that goes on).
It's funny that I should be making a living spidering wires through old houses, when my most expensive and formal training has been in English Literature, at Deep Springs and Swarthmore Colleges. One can find some of my preoccupations from that time, preserved in a kind of time-capsule, on the Swarthmore web-servers at "Herman Melville Stoned" (not that I really smoked during college: I just think it shouldn't be illegal). Some day soon, I'll re-post my writings in a more current presentation, together with my more current play.
While I enjoy my 'career' as electrician, I hope to bridge practical with visionary a bit more than I do currently, through projects in renewable energy and real estate/housing development, such as Orville Development Forum.
Thomas Hall has been a major influence in my life, as my best friend since 8th Grade in 1998. I'm still trying to learn to give myself the freedom to express myself comfortably with other people that is such a treasure between us. We are able to share enthusiasm and even ridicule for each other's ideas without feeling ourselves threatened. I think behind this rapor lies a core strength and weakness in both of us, which is the absence of a sense of urgency -- concerning anything? Concerning ideas? However, lately I am beginning to recognize aspects of this stance as luxuries of priviledge, and at age 31 with an underdeveloped career life, to question the health of maintaining it as -- carefully? -- as I have.
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