I've seen kittens, puppies, and rainbows. Once I saw a sign that said Pegasus Parking Only, and it wasn't a joke. I've known wonderful people who have made adorable baby people. I once watched a hot metal spark fall into my own eyeball. It rusted there over a holiday weekend. I have seen accidental deaths. I have not seen a person kill another person on purpose. What impresses me most is not the delicate, not the cute, the quirky, the rare or the charming. And certainly not a will to violence or to exploit -- but the will to suffer for the sake of a particular, simple change in social norms, business methods, or political relations. Having stated that, the most amazing things I can think of are things I have only heard of. For example, Victor Jara, 1974; died for his love of democracy in Chile. Kate Richards O'Hare, imprisoned throughout the 1920s in the United States for her beliefs in non-violence and sexual equality. The list continues. It is an ambivalent list, including Malcolm X, N. Mandela, MLK Jr. and so on etc.

If you are from the United States, or attend college there, I know some things about the Free Applicaiton for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) process. If you are interested in cross cultural comparisons in terms of intellectual trends and the material conditions in which they evolved, that's cool, we can talk a while about that. I am concerned with labor history, physical to affective. I have amateur interest in ethology, the cuckoo bird is creature that scares me most. It is ruthless. I have lots of working class experience, some practical knowledge. A pale blue collar. Hours and gigabytes of more-or-less trivial stuff available for random access. Drawing and animation techniques and cartoon physics are all of interest to me. I understand major and minor scales in music as spatial issues; striking a diminished chord is like knocking on someone's front door jamb instead of their front door. I understand certain concepts in physics as basic life metaphors: escape velocity, the coriolis effect, helioseismology. Look it up.

The word 'interest' comes from two latin root words - 'inter', meaning 'between', and 'essentia', meaning an 'essence'. Getting between essences.\