MICHAEL-DAVID K.

Hometown

Washington, D.C.

Homepage

http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/Life_Changin
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Birthday

Feb 07, 1962

Languages

English, Italian, Spanish

About Me

This is what Gioia & Spanky (we are adopted English Springer Spaniels who live with him) have said about me: He has wide-ranging interests, experiences, and curiosity. Initially, we thought he was a bit shy but soon we discovered that he really enjoys being with those who honor openess, curiosity, and the value of all sentient life. His interests are seemingly eclectic but there are underlying themes that unite them.

He is a long-term Zen meditator, vegetarian, and health nut. He has a unique background, including his diverse educational experience and career choices. He is now very happy working as a health scientist and loves the latitude this vocation affords him.

On the other hand, he has a peculiar sense of humor that unfortunately includes an appreciation of what might be called primitive humor. He works on two horse rescue farms & trains with Frank Bell's natural horsemanship techniques--& has had a hand in the rescue, care, & rehabilitaiton of 36 horses, most of whom were destined for slaughter.

He longs to relocate to the Pacific Northwest.

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Lifestyle

Pets

Cats x 2, Horse

Activist Aspirations

Casual

Political Leaning

Very Liberal

Religions

Eating Habits

Quasi-Vegan

Wild Fact About Me

Lived and worked in Italy (3 years) as a theatrical and cinematic actor.

My Philosophy

Being is believing...

What Gives Me Hope

The prospect of...the biosphere liberated from homo sapiens sapiens through voluntary human extinction

If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by

Requiring everyone to visit a slaughterhouse.

What/who changed my life and why

Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of (Non-Human) Animals & the Holocaust, Catcher in the Rye; A Separate Peace; Lord of the Rings; The Culture of Narcissism; Brideshead Revisited; The Dialectic of Enlightenment; Un Coeur en Hiver; Blue, White, & Red; Peter V. Smith, S.J. (R.I.P.); Thomas Merton; Bianca Caputo; Sardegna; Ottaviano de'Medici; Gustavo Nieves Griffin; Eido Shimano Roshi; Bernie Carter, Nava Frank (R.I.P.); Kiki Kerns (R.I.P.); San Francisco; Vigevano; Milano; Francesca Ballini; Signor Rocco di Giulia (R.I.P.); Dr. Richard H. Leach (R.I.P.); Dai Bosatsu Zendo; Zazen in the Mahayana

What Bugs Me

"Human Exceptionalism", Speciesism, "Management consultants", Business, "Poverty of language", Illiteracy, "Lack of curiosity", "Lack of intelligence", "Meat/meat-eating", "An overweening sense of entitlement"

Passions

Classical Dressage, Novels of Evelyn Waugh, Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Horse Whispering, Horses, Non-human animal rights, Non-human animals

Inspirations

Wild horses, The old and vulnerable, Non-human animals, Phineas, Holden Caufield, Beethoven

What Scares Me

Global Warming, Richard Pombo, Bush and his cretins, The "Free" Market, Meat eaters, Speciesism

Favorites

Role Models

Dr Steve Best, "Rod Coronado", Keith Mann, Holden Caufield, Ingrid Newkirk, Paul Watson, Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Peter V. Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Merton, Tony de Mello

Quotation

So much of what we live goes on inside--the diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches of unacknowledged love are no less real for having passed unsaid. What we conceal is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.
~ Dana Gioia

Interests

Non-human animal rescue (dogs, horses, farm animals), horses, natural horsemanship-horse whispering, hiking, Italy--anything Italian, Marin & Sonoma Counties, Big Sur (A Confederate General from), Evelyn Waugh, Eliot's Quartets, English Springer and Britt

Books

Music

Tales from Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Brain Salad Surgery, Beethoven's 9th, Barber's Adagio for Strings, Chris Whitley-"Loco Girl, " Marin Marais, Bebel Gilberto, The Voice (Johnny Mercer's legendary "Su, Vasco Rossi--"Vita Spericolata, " Jobim

Movies

The Double Life of Veronique, Blue, White, & Red, Un Coeur en Hiver, Jean de Florette, Manon (des Sources) of the Springs, Diner, Cinema Paradiso, Addio Fratello Crudele, The Black Stallion, Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud, The Taste of Others

TV Shows

Northern Exposure, Then Came Bronson

Favorite Foods

Pasta (inc. pasta al povero), Cibo Sardo, almost everything fresh, organic, & nearly karma-free :) That which is gro, moistened by His rain, & ripened in its own sweet time :)

Favorite Places

Porto Rotondo, Sa Jaga Brujarda, San Fruttuoso (Ligure), Venezia, Mt. Tamalpais, San Francisco, Burlington, VT, St. Simon's Island, Saratoga Springs, Vigevano, Bonassola, Cinque Terre

Can't Live Without

The dogs, horses, & humans I love, rough country: a landscape made of obsta, books, Mt. Tamalpais, Italy

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