Gene
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | English teacher |
| Location | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Introduction | What if all the Universe required of us were a Post-it stuck to our foreheads, telling the world our daily needs? Today I need to touch you, just the tips of my fingers on the curve of your shoulder would do. Or today (I know I don’t deserve it) I need recognition, the eye-to-eye kind that says, “Weren’t you nominated for a Pulitzer yesterday?” Or [again]: I need a cinnamon roll at Zingerman’s. I need to sit at the back table, next to the stack of Detroit Weeklys and Metrotimes, vanilla frosting afloat on my tongue. Tomorrow, I may need the comfort of trees, the afternoon’s gold in their leaves. But today, right now, in this moment of the earth’s heavy turning, I’m turned and twisted with the weight of it all, fallen here beside the metaphor, hoping for a passerby who might once have guessed on “Jeopardy” that the only truly important question is one of being a neighbor, one of reading the signs. |
| Interests | American literature, world religions, writing (poetry, 4th genre), fiddle, piano, baseball, drawing/water color. |
| Favorite movies | Cinema Paradiso, Babette's Feast, American Beauty,and anything with Robert Duval |
| Favorite music | fiddle (Jay Unger), classical (Emperor concerto + 1st Violin concerto, and some Chopin), country-western (Willie Nelson's "Red Headed Stranger"). |
| Favorite books | Merton, "Zen and the Birds of Appetite"; Mattheissen, "The Snow Leopard"; Wiesel, "Night"; Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-5"; Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching" (Stephen Mitchell); Lewis, "Coach"; Brooks, "Everywhere"; Jeffers, "Selected Poetry"; Foer, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"; Baxter, "Feast of Love." |