Born and raised in San Francisco, I am, with a few minor exceptions, the traditional flower child. I love to read, to sing, to write and let us not forget music, one of my greatest passions. (As a great man once said: “Let there be song to fill the air.”) My life long dream is to, like any other lover of the worldly arts, travel the world and become a well paid writer. Then, after I have settled down in some beautiful European village or city, depending on my political views and which government I am currently avoiding on account of the horrible things I have said about their way of living, I will bitch about how America is one giant Cliché with my most beloved of authors during a totally intense drunken conversation. Although this alleged encounter would be taking place in my distant future, it would prove rather difficult considering that these talented Men and Women are dead. So that leaves me with the future generation to conspire with… I can deal. Here is a quote that has permanently effected me and my views on life, written by one of my destined hallucinations, a true genius and amazing writer, Truman Capote.
“If I knew…but my dear, so few things are fulfilled: What are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? We work in the dark; we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is of passion, and our passion is our task. It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe at least in something.”
– Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
“…it has given me something to believe in. And that is peace.”
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