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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	educator
Location	DeSoto, Texas, United States
Introduction	I value: creativity, relationships, the life of the mind, and what makes us human in all our darkness and light. I have a long-time fascination with the way people interact and connect, how they deal with and use conflict. I like to write and my most creative and fruitful outlet is poetry. I am involved with our local poetry group, Poetry In Progress in DeSoto, Texas. I developed and maintain our website: http://www.PoetryInProgress.net.
Interests	poetry, travel, spirituality in its many forms, politics, sociology, creativity, Richard Rohr's work, Buddhist teachings,
Favorite movies	Silver Streak, Good Will Hunting, Seabiscuit, All the President's Men, Erin Brockovich, Shakespeare in Love, The Hunt for Red October, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Arthur.
Favorite music	Saint Sans, Neil Diamond, Barbra Strisand, Gustav Mahler, New Age, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Carlos Nakai
Favorite books	Conversations with God, How to Solve Our Human Problems: The Four Noble Truths, Picnic-Lightning by Billy Collins, Odes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda, The Taoteching, What is Poetry? by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, On Writing Well by William Zimsser, Shakespeare's Sonnets

Unlike a dog, how can a turtle ever be naked?

the stuff of sculptors pretend you understand sonnets