oh, dear... how ever to tell in fewer than 10,000 words!!!
;-)<br />
looks like i'll have to pop a couple of "succinct" pills<br />
and then return to this writing.<br />
<br />
for now, i'll offer a bit of a laundry list...<br />
* great listener<br />
* sports fan<br />
* foodie<br />
* intellectually curious<br />
* passionate / enthusiastic<br />
* bi-coastal (ca for decades, ma grew up in)<br />
* grateful / appreciative<br />
* entertaining<br />
* matisse fan<br />
* linguist<br />
* movie lover<br />
* global and independent traveler<br />
* philosophical<br />
* young-at-heart, but an old soul<br />
* expressive<br />
* proud member of the animal kingdom<br />
* renaissance man<br />
* value diversity<br />
* hopeless romantic<br />
* oenophile<br />
* giving<br />
* crimson and cardinal<br />
* long-winded... ;) i'll shut up now<br />
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actually, if you care to read beyond "the list" (feel free to
scroll past), i can offer a paragraph or two of prose. smiling and
laughter is a big hunk of what you get with me; if i'm not keeping
you amused, i'm not doing my job. those close to me always tell me
i have a gift for it. i'll also add that i'm a people person,
although the mere words make me wince a bit because that is one of
the most over-used terms in the history of humankind. ;-) let's
just say the times i tend to treasure the most include some number
of my friends, family, etc. i can also say that i'm a pretty clear
enfp, for those of you who follow the myers-briggs world out there.
while i certainly survive just fine on my own, i thrive among
others, particularly in small (intimate) groups.<br />
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at the risk of sounding painfully generic one more time, i'll also
tell you that i like to live my life passionately. what are my
passions? great food and wine  i've explored my interests here all
over this country, and taken it to distant lands to boot. amazing
international wanders that crossed thru multiple countriesjapan,
thailand, vietnam, guatemala and borneo were fun, but italy and
france remain long-time favorites; spain isn't chopped liver
either. ;-) in parallel, i like to be able to speak in [some of]
those nation's languagesthus my pursuit of french, italian, and
spanish. i've also studied a few other languages at times, like
russian, hebrew, and greekbut that's more in my past now.