Cycling, running -- driving! Writing poems and short stories and sharing these with friends, photography, playing my guitar when no one is around; volunteering with community organizations that help children and youth in need; fundraising for different charities, teaching English to anyone who wants to learn

Art, culture, people -- learning from them in every way; film and music, talking with artists and musicians and sharing their energy and vision. Helping others. Sport.

Arcade Fire, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Joel Plaskett, Neil Young, Fleet Foxes, The Killers; sometimes folk music, and classical; Peter Nalytch, Radiohead, Shearwater, Teagan & Sara, Chad Van Galen ... anything that John in the Morning plays on KEXP Seattle

Lord of the Rings, "The Island", Ocean's 11, "The Trial", by Orsen Wells; hum ... I will think.

Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann; Lord of the Rings, Toilkien; anything by Kafka; Austerlitz by W S Sebold; Hamlet, The Idiot, Onegin, and on and on .... sometimes my favorite book is the one I am reading now!

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"In the middle of life's journey, I suddenly found myself in the midst of a dark wood where the straight way was lost"