| my name is todd, i hate to use caps and proper punctuation,... just adds to the frustration i was born on april 3rd 1969, i will let you do the math as it will change as the years go by. i currently reside in arizona, i own an acre here, i got 2 dogs, kona and ladydog. lady is a border collie and aussie shep, kona is a black lab and sharpei. we have 5 cats. the cats don't stay very long they usually get eaten by the coyotes,....but it is the chain of life that you must follow, reap the good times, try to forget and accept the bad, for acceptance is the key to a well maintained mind, body, and spirit. i have no children nor do i want any, i think the world is changing too fast and i don't want to risk the life of my unborn children, bringing them up in this world is too dangerous and i don't want to experience thier loss if they die prematurely, so it is best that i just avoid having them. call it free will. i am married, been so since 1996, she is a schoolteacher, history dept. head, english dept head, director for special education, coordinator for the school library, that has a fund in memorium of her mother who recently died who was also a librarian. her nickname was "conan the librarian" hehe., julie recently just got her masters degree in secondary special education, she does a lot of other stuff too, she is senior VP of the ladies auxiliary for the VFW. she spends every last minute of her time thinking of her students, what a woman! |
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| people ask me sometimes, why do i choose to be so different from everyone else. well i must say that its not that i am different,, well then again maybe i am,.. well scratch that,.. i know i am,..i had some brain damage when i was a child. nothing really major in my mind, but my mother and everyone else thinks it was very bad, there was,some frontal lobe damage, so my method of thinking is different than most peoples. when i was 12 i rode my horse to a friends house, and left that day around noon to come home, my mother called at 4 pm to ask when i had planned to come home, she was then told that i had left around noon, so after my mother got done freaking out my dad went out to look for me, he saw the horse in the corral, and started to wander the normal trail that i take to my friends house,.. well i was on the back acre of property laying next to the base of a tree, i had been dumped off,.. i had a brain stem contusion, a ripped liver and a enlarged spleen and appendix, they were both removed along with a tumor in my appendix, i had a bruise on my brain and my skull, i was in coma for 3 days, it had taken me 6 hours to get to the hospital, and that was only the nearest one,.. i was then taken via helicopter to deaconess in spokane, i had been pronounced dead 2 times then revived on the way to the hospital. i do have residual trouble remembering things and maintaining focus, i also have trouble with time lapse, time seems to fly by with me, i also have trouble with my emotions, not that they are spontaneous or anything, i have trouble having them at all, the only things i can relate to are what i call "raw emotions" things that happen on a whim. it doesnt seem that i am able to fully understand how people feel or take things that i say the wrong way, i dont understand how crazy people act the way they do, nor normal people. i dont have any musical ability nor can i seem to keep a rhythm, i am able to write things on paper or computer quite easily,.but when i try to speak them, it comes out wrong. something i have always trouble with, maybe thats why they released me from the military, i wasnt smart enough, i myself dont consider myself smart, only intelligent. there is a difference, most people dont know it. |
| i am originally from a small town in washington state, conconully,.. population of 174 people, at least it was the last time i checked, which was a while ago. i had a very plain childhood. didnt have many friends. of course if you were to ask my mother, she, like all mothers, would say that i had an assload of friends. but i think thats only because they were over all the time. we mostly went out in the hills exploring old mines and stufff. i originally started writing poetry and stuff way back when i was in the 6th grade. it all started with my teacher mr sackman and haiku. i havent written much in the past decade, only because i have never really found the "fire" so to speak. Recently i completed my lovers lodge double sestina. i am proud of that accomlpishment only taking me 3 days to complete, for once i felt the fire within me grow. although my fire changes direction from time to time, mostly going back to leatherwork,.. my most recent accomplishment was a leather duster for a man in okanogan, it turned out really nice,.. although i do not have the pics posted or developed as of yet,. i will post them as soon as i get them done. i am most proud of my leatherwork, i have only been getting better and better with each project i complete,.. right now i have about 15 pieces out there that i have done, on this page i also have links to the pics of some of my projects, the elkhide duster was actually my first project, i had no pattern to "git 'er done" so i just used an old flannel shirt, cut it apart where i thought the skirt and kick pleat needed to go and wah-lah, there it was,.. i added the pockets and some fringe and then the beads,.. and i'll be damned if it didnt look good, check it out for yourself, please keep in mind that the pics were taken with a disposable camera then transferred via my scanner then adjusted for best color and visuals,.. so in short,.. the pics arent very good but you get the general ideacant, see much detail when the leather is black LOL |
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| i have done it!! i have accomplished a feat that few other poets have accomlished, i have written and composed a double sestina,.. yes a double sestina,. for those of you who arent aware it is the tour de force of writing, i am so proud of myself for achieving this goal i set for myself in 3 days. a double sestina consists of 12 stanzas of 12 lines of 10 syllables, iambic pentameter, then a six line envoy at the end that conatins all 12 of the words. so it is basically a 150 line poem or 1500 syllables,.. i added the complexity of rhyme as well. the poem is so long that i cannot find anywhere on the internet to publish it, if you know of a good literary agent, please let me know, the name of the poem is lovers lodge. |
| below is a pic from my trip to washington in 2005, this picnic happens to be mothers day, this is the backyard of my mother's house, couple more here |
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| People who know me as a person know that i am very outgoing and can sometimes be loud and austentatious (dont know if i spelled that right,.. but besides that,.. it makes me kind of a good salesman,.. anyhow,.. i am also the chief creative officer for a company called SOYTAINLY. a friend of mine , joan,.. is the president, we are a kind of grass roots company right now,.. but a business plan is in effect for international trade,.. anyhow i assist in the marketing strategy as well as the creation of the product, our website is linked above, feel free to browse the catalog and we do have the site up for online ordering as well |