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I have to admit, I’m sometimes jealous of the people who get to live in certain places on the west coast! Seattle, Portland, and San Fran seem to be full of the kinds of opportunities that do not seem to be here in dysfunctional Charlotte. Oh well, jealousy never really accomplishes all that much, so, here’s hoping Charlotte grows up sooner rather than later!

I took a couple years of French in high school, but it just didn’t stick.

Recently, my wife and I went on a European adventure which included a couple days in Paris. I absolutely fell in love with it. The city, the people, the art, the electric-like crackling Energy of the place.

I would definitely love to be able to speak the language.

I live in Charlotte, NC. The overall community here is very homogenious. There’s a lot of sameness here. You have many opportunities if you are interested in money, republicanism, conservativeness, Christianity, corporations, pathological economic growth and development and so on.

That’s all fine, but I would like to live in a community that has just as many opportunities for those of us interested in the arts, creativity, imagination, passion, inspiration, diversity, counter-culturalism, and explorting all of Life’s many alternatives.

Since we (my wife and I) have not been able to work out a move out of this city, I figure that for the sake of my own survival and sanity, I have to figure out some way to play my small part in cultivating those opportunities in this currently stiff, rigid, and tightly wound community.