As of 12/06/04 I'm finally starting to redo this bio section,
as well as many other areas of the site.
For now, I'm posting the bio I use for a lot of my online profiles.
I'll write a more detailed one soon.

filter of entrance this time around:~ 03251971-04:50-40N08'54"89W21'53" Tropical Placidus

i believe in integrity, creativity, cosmic awareness, and the resacralization of the universe, I'm an absurdist, musician, and artist with a tendency toward exploratory thought & storytelling.I just absolutely love how there are so many metaphors & stories that are created to explainthe mystery of life.
i try to remind people that they are wonderful, miraculous, and divine.
i walk home about 8 miles almost every day from work, try to be conscientious about what i do & consume (where did it come from and where is it going?), seek truth & meaning in life & strive to create a better world..
i am both cosmic and eternally grounded (walkin around with my head in the clouds & my feet firmly on terra firma) I tend towards empathic, understanding, compassionate, and generous behavior, but am sometimes known as the "black rhino" ( i think ya can figure it out...) I'm also nearly obsessed with trying to understand how different people create their own versions of reality, be it esoteric, occult, new age, secular,spiritual, ..whatever...

a quote i love: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" - R. Buckminster Fuller
and how bout one more from him...
"I live on Earth at present, and don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe."

anyway... I've been thinkin that the final step of an artist is to integrate their creativity into the very way in which they live. I'm a big fan of hermeticism/gnosticism and taoism too (which makes for some very interesting inner push-pull scenarios- i tend to not believe in dualism) although i consider myself a cosmic animist (i basically believe that there is one that expresses "itself" through infinite manifestations..meaning that there is nothing separate from "god") basically, i try to maintain a sacred relationship with all that is.
i can't help but see patterns and have been blessed with the gift of easy insight. (i can see the inner workings of things/people rather easily but not in a way that can be put into words very easily)
I guess in a way I'm a problem solver. i always look at things asking what will work best for the most...how can all benefit from the experience, etc. i love discovering how people "work" & how they create their realities.
it's amazing how incredibly creative people can be!
i mostly laugh at myself but sometimes catch myself gettin a bit too serious..but i think i always manage to feel a fool again before it's too late!
i love the absurd & that bordering on the insanely brilliant. I also have the tendency to be a multitasking artist/musician. it's seasonal for me. music is usually winter with painting/visual art being fall & spring.

ok...so, a little bit more about my schooling & that kinda stuff when i get the time.
ciao for now....darren,dec.6,2004