Charles Elgwyn Taylor
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired College English Teacher, full-time and part-time |
| Location | Hartford, SD, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Married to a great woman, I have two Nikon DSLR cameras--D 3100, D 5100 with a compliment of lenses and flashes, and several compact cameras ,two certificates in Photography--New York Institute of Photography; I earned a BA Grinnell College, MA and Ed S from the University of Iowa,and MFA creative writing from Colorado State University. I write poetry, and make pictures. We have one daughter. Our life is good--not complicated. I volunteered at Avera McKinnon Hospital, and now at Active Generations leading a creative writing group and working om the coffee shop. I've been a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness since 2005, volunteered with NAMI since 2007. I've meditated since 2011, attend All Souls Church. I've been clean and sober since July 22, 1987. |
| Interests | Photography, Poetry, Music, People, Literature, Writing, Unitarian Universalists, Commitment to family, Buddhism, Asian thought, meditation, Liberal Christianity. |
| Favorite movies | Being There, Love Actually, Star Wars Series, The Lord of the Rings, Star Treck Movies, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Rear Window, The Birds, Psycho, The Magic Flute,Casablanca, A Man For All Seasons, Little Big Man, One Flew Over The Coco's Nest, The Lion in Winter, Star Trek and Star Wars movies. |
| Favorite music | Mozart's Reqeum, All Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Neal Young, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, All J. S. Bach, Judy Collins, All Arron Copland, The Bach Violin Concertos, The Music of John Rutter. |
| Favorite books | Zen Mind, Beginner Mind, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Mid Summer Night's Dream, The Tempest, T. S. Eliot The Four Quartets, Yeats Sailing to Byzantium, the poetry of Robert Frost, 1855 edition Leaves of Grass; the poetry of William Stafford. Gary Snyder, and Robert Bly. |
All of the phone numbers have fallen out of your address book. Whose number do you look for first and why?
Marjorie because I love her.