About Myself I am a passionate and somewhat complex man, a bit of an enigma. I am a crusader for truth, beauty and goodness. I rail and despise selfishness. I love peace and tranquility but will not countenance injustice. I follow my own conscience and do what I believe is right, whatever the consequence. I believe that the worth of a person lies, not in what he does or even in what he has, but in what he is. What others' say about someone has no bearing on me. I rely solely on personal experience. I like people, and value friendship. I make friends readily but not close friends easily. As a friend I am a loyal and compassionate. I am affable and resourceful, part philosopher, historian, an artist and a poet. I am free spirited and naturally good natured and sport a developed sense of humor. I have an active, eager mind, ever engaged in reflection and thought and intensely curious about the world around me. As a result, I am somewhat absent minded. I love and respect nature and am passionate about the preservation and fostering of the natural world. I love trees, and have been known to hug one on impulse. I look for beauty in everything; in nature, in people, especially for what's in their hearts, and in places and things I encounter along the way. I believe life IS about the journey and not the destination. On occasion in my journey, I have been unhorsed due to fortune and circumstance. And for a time have experienced depressive feelings and short lived despair. However, like the Phoenix, I have always reinvented myself and risen from my own ashes to venture onward.