About Me
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 8:07 pm. 12 comments
Most people start these things telling you all their successes and talents. I’ve been adventurous in my life and worked forty-five different jobs – and I’ve been really lousy at some of them. I was the worst milkman in the Western Hemisphere. None of the addresses were listed on the route, only the relative location (4 doors down on the right side) if you can believe that. Always behind schedule, I would inevitably screw up one of the relative locations and then mess up a whole series of orders until the complaints starting coming into the office and a supervisor would catch me on my route and we would have to redo a bunch of houses and then try to catch up. It was a relief when they said it looked like time to part company.
I can’t sing, either. And my wife says I dance with too much butt, as though it were possible to dance with too much butt. Still, I was a pretty good gandy dancer on the railroad, although I never enjoyed the inevitable fight outside the barroom when they would move our bunk car to a new town. And I’m a pretty decent programmer, in some ways picking up that Computer Science degree just to prove it as objectively as possible to myself.
So, nutty as I am, my willingness to try things has left me with a broad appreciation of the human condition. I was a public school science teacher and worked for four years with schizophrenic children. I’ve served five years on the board of a homeless shelter and been president of my daughter’s championship choir’s booster group for three years while she was in high school. I’m a Presbyterian Church Elder – but, given how I got here, I’m definitely a big tent believer and spend very little time judging by life situations and pay more attention to whether people are willing to support or violate the integrity of other people.
To put it succinctly, what I am trying to do with this blog is perhaps best summed up in a burst of insight that hit me when asked to summarize something on another blog site:
What I’m referring to is that ability to speak positively without that starry-eyed gaze and the modulated voice. That sense of unfiltered authenticity, that earthiness, intellect connected with body that has the courage to defy cynicism and despair with a full frontal assault.
That’s what I’m shooting for here and I hope you’ll listen and offer your own considered input. In the human sphere, that’s some of the greatest homage we can pay to one another.
~Conrad Hake
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Bravo, Conrad. Already your site is the lived experience of your vision, and an extension of the many wise encounters of an obviously rich life!
Love your notion “trying to encourage precision, powerful flight of the mind.”
This promises to be a blog where unique answers come because you will leverage multiple intelligences to make it happen:-) Now that is an adventure worth waiting for! I’ve blogrolled your site at Brain Leaders and Learners:-)
Thank you, Ellen. Funny aside is that I am such a newbie, I thought I would be getting these responses in my email like it is supposed to happen. Sheesh! I didn’t even know I had responses until I logged into the Administration login just now.
In any case, your feedback has been highly valued by me from first contact. I look forward to a very rich exchange!
I was intrigued enough to want to learn more about you and am I glad that I did!
Quite a life that you seem to have led. Frankly, I envy you. Mine has been more staid but I now make up for it in my retirement by introducing myself as a retired hippy.
I thought you had that hippy potential when you responded to my Eccentric Grandpa piece! Peace, Bro!
Conrad, I would appreciate your visiting my latest blog
http://rummuser.com/?p=727 and commenting.
It would be nice if you could put in a ‘contact’ box in your blog.
Peace indeed to you too.
Ramana, I am heading over there now. And, it would be nice if I put in a contact box, thanks for the suggestion. This blog is so young – 1 week old today – that it has a way to go to full development. At least it is at the point where I can mostly concentrate on the writing, now.
It was a brass lamp. I rubbed it. The genie asked if I knew you Conrad. I admitted that I did a long time ago. I used my one wish to get home before anything in the blob(g) could swallow me.
Too late, Monte. Bwahahaha!!!
Love you , Conrad.
But I’m sending this to see if my picture comes up. (Jean @ cheerfulmonk.com did some fancy thing.)
When you read what a person is saying & see their picture, it’s almost like they’re talking to you.
Bikehikebabe – probably the greatest name in the universe! – I can see your picture. And that makes me happy!
Hi
What a nice intro–funny and yet genuine.
I enjoyed your Vision statement as well though I am a bit of a “DUH” and have to think about “Still, the human mind, like the bird, is unable to carry 300 passengers!”
I would think that with a world full of people with whom I intearct through various means, am responsible for in different ways–I can carry more than that number of passengers. Or have I read it wrong…please help!
Padmini Natarajan (Padmum)
Only a slight miscommunication between us. What I was referring to was that the human mind aided by technology is amplified – a leveraged intelligence. And what is the amplification that allows us to carry so many? The computer and its associated other technology. And knowledge. An uneducated mind can not do the lifting of an educated mind.
Does that clarify? Probably like mud clarifies!