FIVE THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT ME

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FIVE THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT ME.

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So, I guess I need to put in 5 things about me you probably don't know. Here's a few:

1. You can ask my mom about this, but I've wanted to be a writer ever since I was 6 years old. And I've been writing ever since. In elementary school I even got accused of having plagurized something (a poem, I believe) because it was just too good. I've written many different things for many different sorts of people ever since, and now I'm The Practical Wordsmith.

2. The most famous people I've ever met (so far) are Hubert Humphrey and Timothy Leary. The latter I met three times, and shared refreshment with each time. I've also been within 3 feet of Captain Jean Luc  Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a coffee shop in Palo Alto, but I was cool enough (for once) to let him have his privacy. And I saw the Governator within 10 feet the other month, also on the streets of Palo Alto, going into a Starbucks after he and his convoy of 3 Hummers made a traffic stop. He's not very tall, you know...but he sure can kick ass.

3. I studied Tae Kwon Do for three years with a physically enlightened master, Sabumnim Sang Chul Lee, and in fact, this is the only man who I have ever formally called "master" in this lifetime. A Korean middleweight champion, and later involved in coaching the Korean armed forces and later the U.S. Olympic Team (as I have been told), I would actually be able to see everyone else's body (and, i swear, the room itself) reform around the incredible power and coherence of Master Lee's energy field. (OK, I've blown it, now some of you think I'm a fulll-fledged New Ager. Well, I was, and energy is real, so sit on it.) And, then there was the time we were practicing a form, a poomse. It was just me, one other student, and Master Lee. I stumbled ever so slightly at one point and my elbow was brushed by his foot. Well, i felt searing pain shoot through my elbow, like i had been kicked by the equivalent of Thor or something, and i couldn't fully use that arm for maybe a day and a half. These days, I still sometimes practice the most basic of kicks, and have all but forgotten all of the forms. But every now and then other lessons that Master Lee taught me still pop up, quite fresh in my mind.

4. I've seen the aurora borealis, from Binghamton, New York, in about 1980, at 5 in the morning or so. I remember it as being very beautiful. Shimmering, waving, shining between blue and green and an occasional more reddish or yellowish. I would like to see it again some time soon.

5. Last year I inspired and co-led a Leonard Cohen sing-along in my synagogue. In the last, oh, five or so years, the poet and rock artist who has most captured my heart and mind is undoubtedly Leonard Cohen. I sometimes do interviews of people like Ken Wilber (who, you will note, I hold as being less famous than Timothy Leary or Hubert Humphrey), Jean Houston, Dan Millman, Byron Katie, Andrew Cohen, Adyashanti, Robert Anton Wilson, and the like, but in truth, the single person on the planet who I'd most like to meet and interview is ... no, not the Dalai Lama (a close second, obviously), but Leonard Cohen. So Leonard, if you are listening, or if one of you know Leonard, please send me a line. Thanks.