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"Fusing creative and compassionate imagination and critical reason to help rebuild the world"

Oakland, CA, USA
male, age 59
married, 1 child
Speaks: french, spanish
Joined Feb 9, 2009
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Activities: blogging adamfcornford.wordpress.com, hiking with dogs, working out at the gym, writing fiction, reading about science, research, writing poetry, Movie watching, cooking, museums, reading


 
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Hometown Oakland, CA 
Homepage http://adamfcornford.wordpress.com  
Birthday Feb 26, 1950  
Languages french, spanish  
About Me English-born of Scots-Irish descent, poet (3 collections published), teacher for nearly 3 decades, currently freelancing as a scribe/editor, passionate about: arresting climate change, strengthening workers' rights and organization, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, fighting racism and bigotry, repairing our education system to teach science and the arts as central, building the new society within the shell of the old.
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Pets 2 dogs  
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Political Leaning Very Liberal
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Wild Fact About Me I am a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin and am writing the libretto for an opera about his life and work.
My Philosophy I believe that conscious, democratic cooperation in producing and distributing the means of life is the proper basis of human existence and is now made possible on a global scale by information technology as well as necessary by the ecological crisis. I also believe that literature, music, and art are as necessary to life as food and shelter, and that the imagination is the most uniquely human faculty we possess. The universe is open-ended and creative (as a matter of scientific and mathematical fact) and we should be too.
What Gives Me Hope The capacity of ordinary human beings to learn, adapt, and care for one another and their world once they wake from the nightmare of egotism and fear. I believe in this capacity because I have seen it at work.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
What/who changed my life and why There have been many people, many events, and quite a few books. I'll single out one person and one book: William Blake and his *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.* It is one of the most profound and subversive books ever written and the key to a new way of understanding the world and the self.
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Quotation To see a world in a grain of sand/ And heaven in a wild flower/ To hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/ And Eternity in an hour --William Blake
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