"For thousands of years men have been writing the real Bible, and it is being written from day to day, and it will never be finished while man has life. All the facts that we know, all the truly recorded events, all the discoveries and inventions, all the wonderful machines whose wheels and levers seem to think, all the poems, crystals from the brain, flowers from the heart, all the songs of love and joy, of smiles and tears, the great dramas of Imagination's world, the wondrous paintings, miracles of form and color, of light and shade, the marvelous marbles that seem to live and breathe, the secrets told by rock and star, by dust and flower, by rain and snow, by frost and flame, by winding stream and desert sand, by mountain range and billowed sea.

All the wisdom that lengthens and ennobles life, all that avoids or cures disease, or conquers pain -- all just and perfect laws and rules that guide and shape our lives, all thoughts that feed the flames of love the music that transfigures, enraptures and enthralls the victories of heart and brain, the miracles that hands have wrought, the deft and cunning hands of those who worked for wife and child, the histories of noble deeds, of brave and useful men, of faithful loving wives, of quenchless mother-love, of conflicts for the right, of sufferings for the truth, of all the best that all the men and women of the world have said, and thought and done through all the years.

These treasures of the heart and brain -- these are the Sacred Scriptures of the human race." --Robert Ingersoll (1894)


And when asked how he knew when he was done carving and sculpting that piece of marble that would become David, the genius Michelangelo replied: "I chipped away everything that wasn't David."

That is life......get rid of everything that isn't us and we find out who we are. Ahh, but I digress.

I suppose I'm the guy who forgets to take the tags off of new clothes but who can laugh about it once it's pointed out. I'm almost positive that irony is the greatest gift ever given to the human mind. As mentioned, I love to read but I also love to write. If you have ever read The Onion and laughed we would probably get along just fine. Life isn't amazingly short--when stuck in traffic but it really is when on vacation. I tend to take life lessons from more practical (not to mention, sane) places than Oprah and Dr. Phil--and if you think that is shallow, just watch the two of them back to back sometime and THEN disagree. Anyway, I thought this looked like a good place to perhaps meet some people. Regardless, thanks for stopping by and Cheers!!!

-Drew

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Profession: Manager
Interests:  music, playing drums, Humor (in print or in film--the drier the better)--Jujitsu, and reading a great book.