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		Profile ID: 1542877
Age	67
Height	5'9" ft
	(175 cm)
Weight	174 lb
	(79 kg)
Sexually is	versatile oral versatile
City	Atlanta
Zip / postal	30307
State	Georgia
Country	United States
Seeking	sex partner(s) a date a relationship friends couples
Prefer men aged from 20 to 85

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Muscularly defined, hairy (clip/trim/shave areas every month for a shorter/neater look), highly educated with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in two separate fields of study (MFA in art/interior design and Ph.D. in American and English literature), highly intelligent and professional, corporate and business savvy having owned 3 separate businesses, extremely creative in multiple mediums, adventurous, athletic, passionate, caring, spiritually grounded, animal and nature-loving, child-at-wonderment Quixotic man who is simply attempting finding himself while finding his way.

If I am able getting it together and seeing my way clear, I hope to be selling my house here in Atlanta in which I've lived since 1989 and moving; possibly some place coastal (I love ANY beach) but much smaller with an accompanying simpler lifestyle. I can and will totally rennovate to my living and lifestyle or buy property and build the exact artist studio I serendipitously found featured in "Dwell" magazine; this dramatic black exterior L-shaped linear home located on the San Juan Islands. I am also considering other smaller locations with much cooler climates year round along with the possibility of going off-radar with a little farm house away from everything. Of course, it would be incredible doing with with the man I love but I can not wait forever, so I am moving forward singularly. I would move almost anywhere in order sharing my life with *the man*, for together our collective dreams could become a magical reality.

I do not have any *type* for I have always felt this would be limiting and too fine a *filter*; eliminating those who probably would be of most interest to me, maybe not at first blush but upon knowing over time would find proving this being true. I DO NOT seek/want a carbon-copy of myself. Your age is irrelevant, although I prefer men in a range from their LATE 30s into their 80s.

I was obese all my life until 20+ years ago, losing 95 pounds, totally changing my body and life, doing so NOT for the vanity but for my health. I suffered all the abuse, isolation, bullying, name-calling and being left out and ignored my entire childhood and adolescence. It was not easy then nor the many years into my adulthood, but finally realizing IF there was to be a change and miracle, it first must begin inside of me.

I have been on both sides of the fence and would NEVER discriminate against anyone based upon their physicality. For those of you not feeling you *making the cut* just know regardless your external physical appearance, in no way could it ever eclipse the man you are inside; who/what you are making you unique. I am more than happy sharing my routine and changes resulting in my transformation. It is truly about being self-motivated coupled with having people in your life who inspire you.

My statistics, which I know are important here and are an integral part of me, are I am 65 (Sagittarius being my Zodiac sign), 5'9", 170 pounds, 42" chest, 32" waist, 16" biceps, 23" quadriceps, 9% body fat, clipped/trimmed/shaved body hair, receding salt & pepper hair, piercing green eyes, smooth-shaved MOST of the time but often with 2 or 3-day beard growth, pierced ears with very small titanium segmented rings along with 1 small round tattoo on my inner left forearm (ancient Egyptian hieroglyph with hidden/unknown meaning), quarter-size pink nipples with projecting eraser tips, what I consider an average penis (it 6.5" cut, medium thickness with defined helmet head and nice slit), very large shaved balls and a very thick/dense bush.

One of MOST FAVORITE and EROTIC enjoyments is regularly *manscaping* guys; meeting from here, other chat sites as well as posting a local ad; my clipping, trimming and many times TOTALLY SHAVING guys of all shapes and sizes; my FAVORITE being shaving the bush, especially if theirs is VERY THICK! I have a collection of many guys' pubes who willingly allowed my taking away and leaving nothing. I know THEY enjoy as well as myself. Also, I am GREAT giving a massage, having very strong/intuitive hands, and give these as well to those I trim/shave as well as those simply wanting a massage. I do not charge for any of this being that it is so pleasurable and erotic for me! So, IF you are interested let me know!

Sexually I am versatile however I LOVE being dominated; my NOT being in control as someone uses me for his pleasure and gratification. In actuality, however, the submissive has complete and absolute control. I can go from mild to wild, vanilla to kink and everything in between in spit-seconds; open to most anything with only a few limits and a VERY HIGH pain threshold; a threshold totally off the charts in fact. As a writer and being creative I am GREAT at playing out a role without falling out of character. I *get off* on receiving corporal punishment (spanking/flogging/whipping/caning), cock/ball/nipple torture, hot wax, ass toys, masks, cock rings, ball stretchers, ANYTHING leather, electro, sounds, etc., ALL being *PLUSES* for me. I DO have safe words in such scenarios but YET have used any, this by my CHOICE; my somehow able mentally interpreting and translating physical pain as pleasure. Some would deem me a masochist and I guess in some ways I possibly am in that I enjoy a TOP/DOM completely going much further than those limits I THOUGHT I could endure. It is all much more mental and cerebral than physical for me, and as such very much a mental trip during such sessions.

Please know, even with all the above detailed, I have and CAN TOP and BE AGRESSIVE and DOMINANT. I have done so by choice as well as by command and found myself quite intoxicated by the dynamics and reversal of power. Even though I definitely am more a bottom and submissive, with the right man in the most opportune situation, I know I can shift gears quite easily. I do not believe sex between 2 men should in any way be planned and choreographed; instead, totally spontaneous and of-the-moment. This is what allows for the most intimate and intense interaction; always keeping both in great eagerness and anticipation.

But have no misconceptions about my many particular and specific interests! EVERYTHING I have cataloged above are basically *rides at the fair*; extra-curricular activities I find exciting and erotic; EROTIC being the key word, for so many relationships are in that *vanilla* realm; mundane, never experimenting and as such, never reinventing themselves which is imperative to a long and lasting loving, exciting and committed relationship. These *activities* are merely the *pepper in the soup* in my estimation; activities now and then spicing up things a bit.

With this said, my PRIMARY INTEREST is NOT finding a DOM/MASTER...PERIOD! My PRIMARY INTEREST and GOAL, of which I am very hopeful, is finding a man who is *beyond the beyond*(you know, that rare indescribable lagoon blue only able seen in the most exotic out-of-the-way locations), or as I just discovered the Italian translation of "beyond the beyond" being "Al di la di la di la"; someone who is MY *Mr. Right* whether he is to any other man; a man who MIGHT be a DOM/MASTER but also able being my caring and loving LIFE PARTNER with us living a *normal* life. I am seeking a moral man possessing integrity, character, truthfulness, kindness, tenderness, manners, a personal spiritual depth, intelligence, creativeness, an adventurous spirit, a commitment to superior health, a passion for athletics on all levels, a childlike wonder, a love of and respect for nature and animals, and most of all a commitment to a TOTALLY MONOGAMOUS relationship. Yes, I realize this is a very tall *order* but unless a person dreams big, then they receive in return someone second-rate and sub-standard. And, I have NEVER settled for or liked *seconds*!

I heard somewhere years ago the true secret of happiness is akin to properly dressing for dining at the world's most leading restaurant, being recognized by the maître d' and staff as properly dressed and belonging, being escorted to a nice table, being presented the vast menu and most of all ORDERING EXACTLY what one CHOOSES...KNOWING there is a kitchen with a complete staff and full larder awaiting the order; EXACTLY what was ordered being prepared and presented in due time for one's eating pleasure. Sadly, most enter a lesser establishment poorly dressed while ordering something they really do not want while passing over the *entre* that would satisfy their cravings and desires. It truly is this simple. Rich people *order rich* while poor people *order poor*. So goes it with relationships and partners. Where is the payoff in settling for someone who is not the *entre* we most desire?

I am *holding out* for whom I know will be the reason ALL THE OTHERS never worked out; together us CHOOSING *walking into love*; NOT *falling in love*, but ON our feet and clearheaded; thinking with both our hearts and heads while making the very serious while very exciting decision together. I want the kind of loving and lasting relationship my maternal grandparents had; them married over 60 years and totally faithful to each other, their love deepening throughout the passing years, the good and the bad, until death separating them. We, as gay men, have MUCH to learn from SUCCESSFUL, COMMITTED and MORAL STRAIGHT relationships!

I am NOT into being on cam and having sex with a stranger; my finding it totally empty and meaningless. I want meeting a wonderful man and there being the *unfolding* as we better know each other day by day so that WHEN that times comes the intimacy and sex will be very special and sacred. Call me old-fashioned, but this is who/what I am and for this I offer no apology!

And for the record, there being NO SECRETS, I am HIV-; my last test being December 12, 2017 and my not being intimate or sexual with anyone since that date; this my choice. With this being said, please know I am COMPLETELY OPEN to meeting guys both HIV- and HIV+; our KNOWING what is safe and the parameters of intimacy, sex and play. I MUST have kept myself *clean* being a stickler for safe sex; NEVER having sex without the use of a condom unless with my former partner with whom there was mutual monogamy, thus a condom unnecessary. Also, I have NEVER used drugs and never will; my never even trying pot while in college or poppers for that matter. I want life as it is and not experiencing in some altered state such that I am completely unable remembering the moment/moments. Also, I am a non-smoker and only a social drinker; drinking ONLY when with others and drinking very moderately.

I find KISSING the ULTIMATE; that moment when two men are actually breathing each other's air, sustaining each other's life while being intimate in a way MOST sadly do not fully comprehend. It can be the *prelude* to the richest and fullest symphonic musical composition; a slow opening for what can and will become a grand *crescendo* as it were. Kissing is the opening step of the *dance*; it leading ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE possible on what is a VAST *dance floor*! IF you CAN NOT kiss or choose NOT kissing, then there is nothing for us at all.

And just so you guys KNOW what is at the *end of the rainbow*; why I am here and have posted so much of and about myself...I am seeking someone with enough common threads of interests, desires, likes, goals, aspirations, dreams, fantasies, morals and much more; BOTH of us CHOOSING LOVING each other in sharing our lives while sharing this life as a committed couple, all the while each of us remaining the unique individuals we are. I want/need a man who I can complement and vice versa, our bringing out the best AND *bad* in each other!

So, there is a VERY SOFT side to me, just as there is a VERY ROUGH side to me....the YIN/YANG so to speak; and with it I find this perfect balance. Spending a lovely *normal* evening/weekend with a wonderful man doing normal things is pure bliss for me. Let me just say the *extremes* are like "exotic vacations" for me, while the *normal living* is just that; the everyday life I most seek in sharing my life with another man. Working in the yard together, washing/drying dishes, reading aloud to each other, stolen kisses, a an intimate touch of the hand, watching the other sleep while feeling the luckiest man on earth, playing with our pets, taking wonderful trips, enjoying the company of dear friends, growing old together and so much more; this is the *stuff* of which MY dream is made.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh worded it so perfectly in her wonderful book "Gift From the Sea"...."A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart's. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back-it does not matter which. Because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it."

Regarding what I enjoy on a daily/weekly basis, I work out with weights and interval cardio 3-4 times a week, take yoga and Pilates classes, Circadian meditation, working crossword puzzles, playing board games, watching vintage/classic movies, rappelling and mountain biking with a few buddies of mine, traveling, being nude, being on ANY beach, playing the piano on a DAILY basis (I have a 1980 Yamaha G3 satin ebony grand), writing incessantly on my novellas/screen plays and NOW attempting my first novel(a murder mystery involving a serial-killer of all thing!), working on my assemblage/collage/3-dimensional art all contained in boxes (much like the work of the famous Surrealist Joseph Cornell), bonsai gardening, collecting 20th and 21st Century photography (preferring the male nude), collecting many different collectibles (fine art, collectible photography...I own 3 original Bruce Weber silver gelatin photographs of the most famous male model, Jeff Aquilon (all limited edition, signed and dated), Arthur Tress' iconic "Hermaphrodite, East Hampton, NY", Duane Michals' "All Things Mellow in the Mind", Richard Misrach's "Torso" from his "Playboy Series", a John Dugdale, a Herb Ritts, 2 Greg Gorman, 8 Richard de Chazal, 3 Harriet Leibowitz, a Horace Bristol and others along with a lifelong collection of the 50s/60s physique/beefcake/posing strap vintage photographs with the late Larry Scott being my #1 bodybuilder/model, first edition/inscribed collectible books, Italian/Regency/French antique furniture along with Hollywood Regency and Egyptian Revival pieces, Japanese Meiji Period ikebana baskets, Mayan artifacts, Pique Assiette pottery pieces, vintage Victorian Christmas, vintage circus/carnival memorabilia, vintage 40s/50s kitchen, antique mercury glass and the list goes on and on.

I have MANY fetishes, the greatest being underwear/under gear/jock straps/thongs/g strings/posing-straps/Lycra/Spandex/mesh/net/see-through (I wear a size small/30), shoes and boots (the count is too many to count actually, my wearing a 9.5 to 10 depending on the manufacturer...(IF you would enjoy sending me a pair of YOUR underwear I would LOVE adding to my collection; my getting off SO MUCH wearing yours, preferably right off your body!), fine Italian clothing, fine Italian leather goods (Il Bisonte), eyeglass frames and sunglasses, belts, watches, cuff links and fetish leather.

I have traveled much of the world and find traveling to new places always inspiring and a way of bringing into focus not only how large this world is, but at the same time how very small. My favorite places, those most special places are Rome, Italy (I lived and studied there a summer pursuing my undergraduate degree; it completely changing my life and my world view), the Amalfi Coast (Manarola is my most favorite of the Cinque Terre), Zakynthos, Greece, the Cook Islands, Barbados and Mustique, West Indies, Toronto, Ontario, San Francisco (my FAVORITE US city), New Orleans, Provincetown and New York City.

I enjoy ALL areas of the arts....opera (Angela Gheorghiu being my MOST FAVORITE operatic soprano; my seeing and hearing her performing the role of Mimi (her *vehicle role*) in The San Francisco Opera's production of Giacomo Puccini's "La boheme" and MEETING Angela afterward; her being so lovely, gracious, kind and affectionate; insisting we have a photograph taken together which I treasure to this day!), stage productions, cinema, ballet, museums, galleries, etc., and finding my way to most all these as much as possible. I am a major fan of female vocalists from the 50s/60s as well as those wonderful contemporary singers today who carry on the tradition; a CD collection into the thousands now and continuing adding. For the record, my all-time favorite classic female jazz vocalist is Dinah Washington and her singing HER song, "What A Diff'rence A Day Made"; the lyrics as true today as they were when written all the many years ago.

And AGAIN for the record, my most favorite *girl group* is/are the one and only The Three Degrees; my favorite song from of theirs from the 70s being "When Will I See You Again". They were so much more refined and synchronized than groups like The Supremes; there really being no comparison.

Here is the YouTube video of their classic 1975 rendition of "MacArthur Park"; complete with gowns, hair, makeup and their signature hand and body movements...and of course their inimitable perfect/unique harmony. Shirley, Valerie and Fayette were IT then as today! Donna Summer was their *kissing cousin* with this particular song; my being fortunate enough seeing/hearing her perform in New Orleans in 1978 for her "LIVE AND MORE" concert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYA1OMcBgDc


I NEVER watch ANY news channels or read news at all. I live by the saying "The best way to be in touch with the world is to be out of touch with the world". I find watching TCM (the CLASSIC/VINTAGE movies will ALWAYS be the very best), TNT, USA, SYFY, AMC and PBS satiates my viewing desires.

I could not create my profile without mentioning one of my most favorite actresses, Geraldine Page, in one of my most favorite of all her many movies, "The Trip to Bountiful" and sharing this, my most favorite and what I consider the most touching and poignant scene in the movie; her NOT "acting" but *being*; to such an extent she and this moment is otherworldly.

This is THAT moment in everyone's life when mortality become reality; a longing look over one's shoulder to their past...those loving people and illuminating moments in time; a wistful and languishing reminiscing, all the while wilting and yielding to this clairvoyance and innate knowledge there will be no future; this being the end of their beginning. Adding to this powerful performance the angelic voice of Cynthia Clawson singing the heartrending hymn "Softly and Tenderly" and well, you know the rest.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSYLzbjT6Cg&list=RDpSYLzbjT6Cg&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_6s6lRPPBQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKw6su_e6Z0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icm1O3rqstE



As both an artist and writer I am extremely passionate about EVERYTHING, never simply *looking* but always *seeing*; hearing or reading NOT what is simply before me but extrapolating what is there between the lines. I have been told I am extremely intuitive and believe I have a particular psychic power inherited from my maternal grandmother, an ability in *reading* others in ways NOT expected. Just as her, believing she lived a previous life in India, I have the same feeling and conviction; my KNOWING I lived a previous life in Munich, Germany; my holding too much exacting information about Munich and those living there; having lived there during the early 40s.

IF you are thinking after reading this I am extremely complex, I am really not, even though I am a man of many facets, for I grew up in a very small rural town, much like the fictitious town Maycomb in my most favorite novel, Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird"; so I grew up with country folk and have never denied or turned my back on my country roots. I am sort of a combination of both Scout and Jem in a way. One of my most treasured possessions is an inscribed first edition of the book in which Harper (Nelle) wished me "Happy Birthday"!

I KNOW my lineage and ancestry (41st direct descendant of Charlemagne/Charles the Great/Charles I...714-782 AD) and am sure/confident in myself as I carry on being myself without resting on the laurels of those preceding me. I am honored by them and most grateful for their many sacrifices in forging the way for me, even today; my being free and having freedoms the majority of those in the world are not privy.

I treat others as I wish being treated. I live by Benjamin Franklin's quotation..."Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." HOWEVER, this DOES NOT mean I must LIKE everyone! From the Bible on down, NO WHERE are we *commanded* LIKING everyone. It is totally possible loving everyone while not liking particular individuals, most especially judgmental and ignorant so-called *family*! MORE damage is done to us by FAMILY MEMBERS than the combined of all OUTSIDE sources! This is not my opinion but proven clinical/medical/legal fact. Thankfully, Obama has signed into law 2 pivotal laws PROTECTING ALL OF US AS GAY MEN from those hatemongers and those who would harm/kill us; sadly family members being at the very top of the list!

I DO believe in *paying it forward*; it reaping such incredible wonders and changing lives and the world for the better.

I have my favorite quotations by which I do my best applying to my life; living by words of those who simply knew the greatest truths and answers in life.




"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."


Joseph Campbell


"Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."


Thomas Gray

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"


"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."


Michelangelo



"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."


Richard Avedon


"Authentic swans are almost never women that nature and the world has deprived. God gave them good bones; some lesser personage, a father, a husband, blessed them with that best of beauty emollients, a splendid bank account.

It may be that the enduring swan glides upon waters of liquefied lucre, but that cannot account for the creature herself - her talent, like all talent, is composed of unpurchasable substances."


Truman Capote

"Portraits and Observations"
"The Essays of Truman Capote"

"A Gathering of Swans" excerpt



"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
ché la diritta via era smarrita."


Dante Alighieri

"The Divine Comedy" / "The Inferno: Canto I"

"When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray."

Interpretation by the famous monologist Ruth Draper..."Midway along the pathway of our lives I found myself in a dark forest, for the direct way was lost."



"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."


James Matthew Barrie



"When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun."


William Shakespeare

"Romeo and Juliet"



"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze that it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, that a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, to to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."


Jack London



"Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station."


Paulo Coelho



"My, how foolish I am! You know what I've always thought? I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it would be like looking at the Baptist window: pretty as colored glass with the sun pouring through, such a shine you don't know it's getting dark. And it's been a comfort: to think of that shine taking away all the spooky feeling. But I'll wager it never happens. I'll wager at the very end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are, just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes."

Truman Capote

"A Christmas Memory"




"Being but men, we walked into the trees
Afraid, letting our syllables be soft
For fear of waking the rooks,
For fear of coming
Noiselessly into a world of wings and cries.

If we were children we might climb,
Catch the rooks sleeping, and break no twig,
And, after the soft ascent,
Thrust out our heads above the branches
To wonder at the unfailing stars.

Out of confusion, as the way is,
And the wonder, that man knows,
Out of the chaos would come bliss.

That, then, is loveliness, we said,
Children in wonder watching the stars,
Is the aim and the end.

Being but men, we walked into the trees."


Dylan Thomas

"Being But Men"



"When I went to the film and saw all the black-and-white feelings that nobody felt,
And heard the audience sighing and sobbing with all the emotions they none of them felt,
And saw them cuddling with rising passions they none of them for a moment felt,
And caught them moaning from close-up kisses, black-and-white kisses that could not be felt,
It was like being in heaven, which I am sure has a white atmosphere
Upon which shadows of people, pure personalities
Are cast in black and white, and move
In flat ecstasy, supremely unfelt
And heavenly."


D.H. Lawrence

"When I Went to the Film"



"I have studied many times    
The marble which was chiseled for me-     
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.  
In truth it pictures not my destination   
But my life.      
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;    
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;    
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.     
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.  
And now I know that we must lift the sail 
And catch the winds of destiny      
Wherever they drive the boat. 
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,      
But life without meaning is the torture   
Of restlessness and vague desire-   
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid."


Edgar Lee Masters

"Spoon River Anthology"

"64. George Gray"



"FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU,
THEN THEY LAUGH AT YOU,
THEN THEY FIGHT YOU,
THEN YOU WIN"


Gandhi



"But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable! It is the one unforgivable thing, in my opinion, and the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty."


Tennessee Williams

"A Streetcar Named Desire", Blanche speaking to Stanley




"The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere."


Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Gift from the Sea"


Apropos Excerpt from "Gift From the Sea":

"When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides."



"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you
kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors."


Tennessee Williams



"...but there were many delightful things one would like to do, and what was strength given to one for except to help one not to do them?"

"The Enchanted April" / Excerpt from Chapter 1


Elizabeth von Arnim



"Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."


"The Life and Death of King John"
Act 4/Scene 2

William Shakespeare



"Perhaps they are not stars, but rather
opening in heaven where the love of our
lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy."


Eskimo proverb



"I come into a world of iron to make a world of gold."


Dale Wasserman

"Man of La Mancha" (Cervantes speaking)



Jimmy Palmer: "In your own words, the difference between ethics and morals."

Doctor Ducky Mallard: "Well, the ethical man knows he shouldn't cheat on his partner, whereas the moral man actually wouldn't." (paraphrased)


"N.C.I.S."




"How calmly does the orange branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer,
With no betrayal of despair.

Sometimes while night obscures the tree
The zenith of its life will be
Gone past forever, and from thence
A second history will commence.

A chronicle no longer gold,
A bargaining with mist and mould,
And finally the broken stem
The plummeting to earth; and then

An intercourse not well designed
For Beings of a golden kind
Whose native green must arch above
The Earth's obscene, corrupting love.

And still the ripe fruit and the branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer,
With no betrayal of despair.

O Courage, could you not as well
Select a second place to dwell,
No only in that golden tree
But in the frightened heart of me?"


Tennessee Williams

"Nonno's Poem"

"Night of the Iguana"



"You see how easily we fit together,
as if God's own hand had cradled only us
and this beach town's population were but two
and this wide bed but a child's cradle
with room enough left over for presents.

Tomorrow I'll buy you presents.
Pomegranates and breadsticks,
tickets round the room and back
and red, red roses like everybody buys everybody.

Everybody's got a diamond ring
and Sunday shoes.
Neckties and petticoats,
pistols and tennis balls.

What pleases you?
I'd hock my watch to buy you Greece
or sell my car to bring you rickshaws from Rangoon.

All they had down at the corner
were poppies with some lemon leaves.
They'll have to do
till I can bring home Union Square.

I found a twenty-dollar bill when I was ten.
I bought a cardboard circus and a fountain pen
and a jackknife because I never had one before.
My mother thought I'd stolen the money.
I bought her perfume from the dime store,
she believed me then.

I was rich in those days,
for a week I had everything.

I wish I'd known you then."


Rod McKuen

"GIFTS FROM THE SEA / Three"


So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.


William Cullen Bryant

"Thanatopsis"



"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."


Marianne Williamson

"A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of 'A Course in Miracles'"



My current plans are in the works for selling my house and moving; the destination being a much smaller and cooler place...some place far away where I will have built my tiny dream house I have been designing and planning for quite some time. I will proceed on this course UNLESS I should meet *Mr. Right* between now and then. With the right man I could live in a pup tent in the middle of nowhere! I am in the process of sorting/purging/packing/storing/etc. in an effort clearing my house for some repairs, painting and then showing; my realtor telling me him able selling it quickly based up the location and design. I am ready for a total change in my life but would find this much more exciting and meaningful were I moving in order sharing my life with the man I love and who loves me; together us CHOOSING loving each other and giving ourselves completely to the other.

Now, I have laid out who/what I am as *me*. IF you like, please message me but if you do not I am fine with this as well, knowing we all can not be right for everyone. I wish each of us the best in our searches and quests both here and in life.

Let us be kind to one another. Life is simply too short for anything less.

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