"Who are we not to shine"

About Me

Poet, artist, computer geek wannabe, techie wrapped up in a fuzzie, all-around handy man, optimistically pessimistic realist, dreamer with his feet in the sand.

Poetry is the biggest part of me - if you'd like to read some let me know and I'll send you to my site.

--- Doing something different - when I post, the pics will go to the default folder, and then next time I'll move them to their appropriate folder - that way everything gets a turn on the front page

--- Camera is HP 735, with some from my old Minolta X-370s or Canon AE-1 thrown in every once in a while.
--UPDATE-- my new camera, a Nikon D70, will be part of the process now as well
--UPDATE-- now it's a Nikon D300. Couple of sweet new lenses too. And I did my first wedding as official photographer

My Interests

Music

Movies

Television

Books

Most recent acquisitions:, W.S Merwin's "Migration", Galway Kinnells's "A New Selected Poems" - "The Bear" rocks - fav poem so far, Czslaw Milosz's "New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001", K. Blease's collected "Sensual Love Poems", --- fav so far is Izumi Shikibu's "In This World", Stanley Kunitz's "The Collected Poems", Pablo Neruda's "Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970", - - -see the pattern?, I do have others though also - like I just read Tobias Wolff's "Old School, " and am currently in the middle of Richard Foster's "Celebration of Discipline.", I'm not even touching the favs I grew up with