Payton L. Inkletter
| Occupation | Thinking rigorously a lot, lots, and then some: an uncommon and fraught occupation, incidentally, able to result in a useful awareness of what matters and what's actually going on. |
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| Location | Perth, fabulous 'where the bloody hell are you?' Western Australia, U.S. Outlying Islands |
| Introduction | Fool's Paradise – Infinity on a Shoestring Gender: Male (last time I looked); Writer; Thinker; Studier of the Human Condition (and chickens' entrails); Wonderer; Laugher; Listener; Character; Recent Optimist; Part-of-the-Solution Aspirant; Sarsaparilla, Cocoa, and White Black Tea Imbiber (no sugar - plenty sweet enough); Twenty Eight Thousand and Twelfth Living Wonder of the World; Amateur Worm Farmer Extraordinaire and Professional Worm Admirer; Humus Assist and Humorist; Play Up; Yes-Hoper... And I reckon: Reality is actually far better than the best any of us can imagine, the universe is friendly and funny, laughter is a powerful medicine as well as an efficacious antidote for self-importance, and the best is yet to come, despite any and all appearances to the contrary... |
| Interests | Thinking; Studying the human condition; Writing; Aspiring; Laughing; Listening; 'Optimistasizing'; Maturing; Hoping... |
| Favorite movies | The Castle; Chicken Run; The Crucible; The Producers, and Mel Brooks' work in general; The Princess Bride; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Kenny; Dad and Dave; The Man with Two Brains; more coming... |
| Favorite music | Nina Simone; KD Lang; Emmylou Harris - Prayer in Open D; Country in general, Willie Nelson in particular; Classical - Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, and many others; Fifties and Sixties popular; more coming... |
| Favorite books | Stranger in a Strange Land; The Lord of the Rings; George Elliot's books; Tim Winton's books; more coming, trust me... |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
No, I marvelled at the phase changes along the Kelvin continuum...