male
49 years old
Steilacoom, WA
Last Login: 7/21
Status:
I am at home and hanging out. Hope to hear from you soon. T
Sexual Pref: straight
Occupation: Marine Operations Supervisor
Relationship Status: single
Ethnicity: white
Religion: other
Political Views: Moderate
I like writing fiction and have a few novels written in long hand that I need to put down on the computer and I like to draw wildlife, figure drawing and fantasy.
I drink socially and smoke socially. I enjoy being around people and socilaizing but I also like my own private time.
I am somewhat reserved in some areas of my personality but when I get comfortable with someone I open up. Some of my friends say that I can be aloof when I am focusing on a project and at other times I can be the most thoughtful and considerate person they know. I am an ARIES/TAURUS so there is a conflict of interest. Sometimes I am grounded and logical and sometimes I am all fire and spontaneous.
I used to operate (as a 1st/2nd Mate) a 175' ship the "Majestic Explorer" back in the 80s (checkout the slide show), in the 90s I was on 60' Tugs and 70' Passenger vessels. In 2004 I became Supervisor of Marine Operations. Its a job with alot of resposibility but I like it most of the time. I really miss running the boats, the feel of the water and wind. Loved it.
Hobbies
Writing,reading, drawing, art, theater, ballet, opera,films,football, basball, waterskiing and messing around on boats.
Heroes
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was the last viceroy of India and played a principal role in ushering that country from colonialism to Commonwealth status.
Following independence, he filled the role of India's first Governor-General. He was not only a member of the British royal family (his great-grandmother was Queen Victoria) but a successful naval officer during World War II.
He served as Supreme Commander of South-East Asia and oversaw the expulsion of Japanese forces from Burma. Post-war, Mountbatten commanded NATO forces in the Mediterranean and was chief of the British defense staff.
Mountbatten was murdered by IRA terrorists while on vacation in Ireland.
QUOTES
This is the war I fear.
We all had dreams of a united India. Within weeks they were shattered.
What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?
When knocking about, always aim in a definite direction. Hitting aimlessly may be amusing but it is a very bad habit.
Whoever would want to murder an old man like me?
Winston laid it down in 1940 who was to carry his body, and I was included.
It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.
It may be coincidence that I was promoted.
I was getting very pleased with myself and I knew this was very bad for me.
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
I can't go on forever. I'd rather snuff out in a hurry.
Lord Mountbatten
A child miseducated is a child lost.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
John F. Kennedy
For thisI've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Jimmy Carter
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King
Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closet you can come to being a bird.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Neil Armstrong
“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.”
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism”
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.”
I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.”
“If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.”
“Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.”
"While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment."
Barry Goldwater
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
Follow Your Bliss.
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mohandas Gahndi
Pierce Brosnan
Interests
A place for everything, everything in its place.
A small leak can sink a great ship.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin
Travel Destinations
Ive been here- Hawaii, Tahiti, New Zealand, Easter Island, Chile, Peru, California(LA, San Francisco, Stockton, Sacremento), SE Alaska, British Columbia, Norway.
Places I want to go to- Puerta Vallarta, Cancun, British Virgin Islands, Scotland, Ireland, England, Rome, Greel Isles, The coast of FRANCE on the Med, "Nuremburg, Germany", Katmandu, Hong Kong, The Marshall Islands and Egypt.
Books
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Riddle in the Sands, Foucalult's Pendulum, The Sea Wolf, The Incredible Voyage, In Harm's Way, Mutiny on the Bounty, "Wind, Sand and Stars", Fatu Hiva, In the Name of the Rose, Ireland, Shardik, Bard, Red Branch, The Caine Mutiny, State of Fear, Queen of the Damned, and The Broker.
TV Shows
Barney Miller, ER, Deadwood, Rome, "I, Claudius", Shogun, Centenial, Shaka Zulu, All Creatures Great and Small, Seinfeld, Friends, X-files, Battlestar Galactica.
Movies
Inherit the Wind, An Unfinished Life, I am Legend, Domino,Erin Brockovich, Event Horizon, Ulee's Gold, Immortal Beloved, Amadeus, Deja Vu, The Limey, Judgement at Nuremberg, Schindlers List, The Usual Suspects, A Few Good Men, Braveheart, Pan's Labyrinth, The Magnificent Seven, The Man Who Would Be King, Seven, Amistad, The Four Feathers, The Lord of the Rings, V for Vendetta, Starship Trooper, Romeo is Bleeding, At Play in the Feilds of the Lord, Underworld I and II, Wizard of Oz, Silverado, To Kill a Mockingbird, North by Northwest, 13 Ghosts, Darknes Falls, Hostel, Saw, To Catch a Thief, The Man who Knew to Much, The Sheltering Sky, Islands in the Stream, Medicine Man, The Valley(French), Snows of Kilamanjaro, The King and I, Last of the Mohicans, Tombstone, The English Patient, Lord Jim, Lawrence of Arabia, West Side Story, Pirates of the Caribbean I,II,III Master and Commander, The Bounty, The Ghost and the Darkness, Blade Runner, Marathon Man, Jaws and A Perfect Storm.
Music
AC/DC, Tool, Disturbed, Nine Inch Nails, Wolfmother, Limp Bizkit, System of the Down, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Boney James, Les McCann, Bryan Adams, Dave Koz, Rush, Nickleback, YES, Bob Marley and Jethro Tull.
Classical(Beethoven and Mozart), Jazz, R&B, Blues, Bluegrass and TRANCE and New Age. Keith Jarret, Prodigy, Wiseguys, Fluke, Crystal Method, Journey, Aerosmith, ICP, The Police, Santana, Allman Brothers, Moody Blues, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Grateful Dead, B-52'S, ZZ Top, WAR, Marvin Gaye, Alecia Keyes, James Taylor, Steve Miller, Black Sabbath, Supertramp, Lynrd Skynrd, Charlie Daniels.
I'm looking for:
Friendship,Dating,Relationship
I would enjoy meeting:
New Friends, People with similar interests, Singles
Relationship Qualities
You are compassionate, friendly, free spirited and intelligent. You think for yourself and are not afraid to lay out your feelings. You have an interest in bettering yourself either in education, music or travel. You are open minded about social issues and political issues as well as religion. You like to keep yourself fit and healthy and you can care enough about your friends and partner to intercede when you feel they need your help. You are adventureous, loyal, caring and passionate.
You like to be adventurous in bed. You have a wild, erotic side and a soft, sensual side when lovemaking. You enjoy sex and have fun with your lover...playful and exciting. You are indpedent, self sufficient and you stand up for yourself. You have no problem voicing your opinion and you are not easily influenced. Strong women turn me on. You like like Christmas, Easter and Halloween. You are a good hostess(especially on the Labor Day weekend Party) You like dogs (and cats if necessary)
You are caring about others less fortunate than yourself. You are not condescending or untruthful. You speak from your heart truthfully.
I hope to talk to you soon.
Friendship Qualities
Understanding, compassion, empathy, gracious, strongwilled, unjudgemental, open minded, creative, optimistic, funny, unpretentious, humble, mysterious.
