Who are you?
Who, Who - - Who, Who,
Oh I really wanna know.
(A song, an old song, by a British rock band, appropriately named - The Who)
Who are you?
Who am I?
I really wanna know.
(I do.)
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We are - what we think.
Even more - we are what we do.
“By their fruits, ye shall know them” (me).
What do I think?
What do I do?
Who am I?
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Nature? Nurture? Place and time.
Yes, Yes and Yes. I am - all of those things.
I am the son of Fay and Art.
A boy, I was a boy then, from a western suburb of Syracuse in the nineteen sixties and seventies. Syracuse dirt. Camillus to be precise.
I am a younger and an older - brother - to a Ned and to a Karen. (I am a - middle.)
I am a dog lover, a friend to all the dogs I’ve loved. They know me, my heart.
I am a student. I studied (sometimes) working with textbooks (not so much), novels (better), and memoirs (best), and teachers (many of whom were simply - everyday people) (best of the best of the best - everyday people).
I am a husband - to a Christine
I am a friend. (I hope I am a good one.)
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Other people and pets - fellow actors
Place and stuff - all setting, staging, props in my (all the world's a stage) play
(I’ve been blessed with good people, places and props to work with. To do my little dance and put on my little show.)
But then, what’s “my act”? (Do girls dig it?)
What’s - my nature?
Why do I do - what I do?
That’s core stuff.
Wiring, programming
My - I
Intelligence
(Is it artificial? Or is it real? Is it live, or is it Memorex? A commercial, an old commercial.)
The stuff that makes me - Me.
The Why - the Reason - I Am Here.
I Am Here. (You are too.)
What’s my Act? (What’s yours?)
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Photos:
1966 - I received a toy drum set for Christmas.
Yes, that is me.
I am percussion.
A beat, rhythm, pounding, bass, boom
- that’s me.
That is definitely me.
Turn the beat around. Turn it upside down. Love to feel percussion.
1.Would you give Percussion Instruments to the children of friends?
2. Remembering the sad result of Karen Carpenter being denied her drums by her controlling family.
Try not to be controlling parents.