Rick C
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Energy efficiency specialist |
| Location | Davenport, Iowa |
| Introduction | I'm a proud dad to 5, and a proud grandpa to the Greatest Grandkids In the World - and, if you're blessed enough to be a grandparent I'd want you to think the same about yours. Politically, moderate liberal on most issues. Moderate is the key word; I have little use for fanaticism of the left or right.I am Catholic, and in the inquiry phase of becoming an Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict. |
| Interests | Faith,family,politics, human beings, music, literature, environmental issues |
| Favorite music | My tastes are varied. As I write this Mahler's Symphony #2, the Resurrection, is on the computer. I love jazz - Miles, Coltrane, Brubeck, all the Marsalis clan. I listen to a lot of Stones, Beatles, Springsteen, Seger, U2, Dylan, James Taylor. |
| Favorite books | Joyce's The Dead, Ulysses, Faulkner's Old Man, The Bear, Sanctuary, Updike's Rabbit series, anything by Thomas Merton, Gerard Manley Hopkins |
The first time you had your shoes taken off - how surprised were you to see that you still had toes?
Not even a little, since I didn't know anything about toes. Or about shoes.