I'm a self-employed pilot/instructor in Denver, CO, and also in Alaska. Love music when I can find that rare gem. Love movies usually something funny, meaningful, and thought provoking, like Matrix or how Cloud Atlas should have been without the vicious rage. I've been a teacher all my life, as well as a friend. I was raised to be a gentleman and to protect people and serve others. I've studied emotional intelligence since 1997, but my little dog, Bakgu, a Maltese from Korea, has taught me more in our short time together than Daniel Goleman or the Dalai Lama have!
I'm a foodie, and have been teaching myself to cook for about 5 years now, but I rarely cook lately because it's just me anymore and I'm pursuing my other hobbies now.
Since 1999, I sponsor three orphaned infant girls: one in China, one in South Korea, one in the Philippines. They make me feel like I have a family of my own. Maybe I can visit the orphanages now...
Due to a lot of hard work, and also many recent tragedies, I am finally in a position to travel the world for almost free, as long as there is room on a US airline. I can finally become a world citizen!! I'm straining to throw myself headlong around the world and just get out of the US. It's always last minute travel, as I have to wait to the very end to see if there's a seat available on the flight. I have always been a planner, but am learning to embrace the chaos, it's all life seems to offer. Travelling this way is like playing chess and also being simply lucky. But it's worth it to meet new friends I hope to hang on to for life.
I'm preparing myself to be able to travel to several places in Asia, or anywhere else, on less than a day's notice!
(P.S. Saw Cloud Atlas on a flight to Thailand. Superbly acted and directed, but the writer needs valium and anger management and Jung, and a conference with the Dalai Lama - utter crap. Unnecessary. My poor, gorgeous Bae Doona - Exquisite work!!!! But you and your characters in this movie deserve everything so much more!)