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Interests & Beliefs

My wife is my primary interest. But I've always lived in a very large world. This is a place the size of a postage stamp on the front of my brain: that is home to me. My wife and I were born gifted; she was a musical and artistic prodigy. I also began early. I was born in spring a "triple Gemini" according to people knowledgeable in that field. I have many talents and do many things well, always have.

Spring is my favorite season. If I had a huge amount of money I would spend spring in the northern hemisphere and then just after summer here I'd go for a few months to the southern hemisphere for three more months of spring. I could do this
Forever.

gardening is a passion. I have visited gardens around the world. Anytime I'm someplace new I have to see the local gardens. With time and care invested I have created marvelous fountains of color even when I lived in an apartment with only a balcony. To "privatize" a window, for example, I grew tomatoes in a box 8 feet high so the neighbors couldn't look in my windows. Planting a single row of anything floral tends to look wanting. Roses need double rows at least. I planted our last garden with 40 roses and over 400 daffodils. Over the daffodils I planted literally hundreds of perennial flowers I grew from seed to show up after the daffodils fade. My wife never wants for bouquets. They are cheaper this way too. Americans sadly consider a lawn and green shrubs "gardening".

I use Internet and mail order gardening supplies often. For example we purchased the Honda mini rototiller through the mail instead of the Mantis. The Honda was virtually unknown in California but it's a superior machine in many ways. You will find out where I located it when I put together the "gardening" weblinks. I use seed propagation trays that water and fertilize themselves to start many of my plants. Ordering seeds by mail is simply marvelous. In the dead of winter come floods of catalogs. One of the rare things my wife and I argue about is which flower and vegetable seeds to order. Do you wonder why I love her?

humor is my salvation! I find humor in all kinds of everyday events. It's one of the main reasons that where ever I work I am one of the best liked nurses. Definitely a wild and ironic sense of humor. You'll find a large file of jokes and quotes that will jerk your joke bone.

Politics This is an area of archived articles and opinions. There are two warning pages. Go here only if you wish your eyes opened. This is a very large and powerfully disturbing area of very current information.

THE WORLD OF SCIENCE & NATURE has fascinated me for a lifetime! As a boy I spent an inordinate amount of time studying it in all it's great beauty. I was born and raised on Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles, California. I was on the ocean or in the mountains frequently. I collected sea shells, plants, insects, and rocks. Oh, snakes too; drove mom nuts!

In addition I read all of the books out in the local school and public libraries on the natural sciences; also Greek history, science fiction, travel, geography, and anything else I got interested in. Then I spent my money ordering books from the mainland libraries 10 at a time. My personal reference library numbered in the hundreds of books.

I was well known around town by the old ladies with their gardens. I knocked on their doors and asked permission to take a slip of their geraniums or fuchsias. They always let me take a piece. Then I'd take it home and grow it on. My dads little hotel soon had the best collection of these plants on the island. Birds were high on my list of favorite things. I spent a couple days a week in the BIRDPARK on Catalina Island helping out. I cleaned cages , chopped mountains of fruit and horse meat, helped to raise platoons of birds hatched in the huge incubators. I made a collection of the beautiful feathers too!

Music: A LifeLong Source of Joy

I started collecting music as a youngster and never stopped. There are thousands of recordings in my collection. I recently purchased a CD Recorder by TDK and am in the process of recording all my LP (Long Playing) vinyl records and audio cassettes onto CD's. The LP's and cassettes after being recorded will be included on pages relating to the bands they are of and will be for sale. One of my hobbies over the years was to clip out articles on the various music groups and stick them inside the jackets of the albums. So you can pull out the articles from years ago and read about them when they were hot and in the news. That makes these much more interesting to the collector and music historian.
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TRAVEL broadens your thinking about home!

I traveled first in the books I read. William Beebe invented the bathisphere and was the first man to go nearly a mile below the ocean surface and see luminous fish. Reading Gerald Durrell's books on his worldwide efforts to collect and breed animals in danger of extinction started me on my first charitable donations. I put a dollar bill in an envelope as a young child and mailed it to him in England. He made me a honorary member of his Wildlife Preservation Trust International. Later I visited his zoo on Jersey Island in 1984 and saw him speak at UCLA and he was revelatory in my view of the world. These and others such as Jacques Costeau as well as Luther Burbank, the great plant breeder, were my childhood idols. They traveled the world and experienced it in ways that are disappearing quickly. I felt that these remarkable men were my early mentors. I read all of their books and traveled the world on their ships in my imagination. I later hitchhiked around the western United States and grew to love the people here. Also my folks subscribed to Sunset Magazine. I wrote to the travel ads in it and received huge manila envelopes from America and all over the world. I developed pen pals in Japan for a while too.

Fitness & health care

I have never been well coordinated. As a kid I had asthma and the doctor in town worried that I'd have an asthma attack if I over exerted myself. So naturally I joined the track team and even lettered in the three mile race. I was slow to mature and kept growing years after high school. I found that the most pleasure I got in exercise was from lifting weights. I got very strong and very large and nobody ever picked on me again like when I was younger. I've kept at it through the years. I like the way I feel when I'm strong enough to pick up the back end of a VW. Yes, I've done that too. Back then I was so bad that when I sneezed it blew the leaves off of trees.

I've always loved the variety of new ideas and knowledge that keeps happening in the health care field. Nursing keeps me close to the patients unlike doctors who never get a chance to spend much time with the people they care for. That's why I'm not in medicine though it is interesting. If you have an emergency or are just curious about what to do if you come upon one click on the EMERGENCY button below. Good Luck!

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