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Along the edges of the forest, where there’s open sunlight, there are chokecherry trees. The red chokecherries ripen and turn translucent. They’re so sour they dry up the inside of your mouth.
Albert Wong
Al
aspiring truth
Gender: male
Age: 41
- About Me:
I am a teacher, a writer, a performance artist, an actor, a dancing fool, a jack of all trades, master of few. I lived at the Esalen Institute for five years -- from 1995 through till the millennium -- and was the Coordinator of the Friends of Esalen during that time. I think that my time at Esalen was, in all likelihood, the most formative time of my life. I was coming from a place of great uncertainty, about life, about everything. I did not know, really, who I was, or what I was here for. Esalen guided me, birthed me, in many ways-- and I feel like I became a real person from being there. I owe an eternal debt of gratitude to the place and to the teachers that I had the good fortune of studying with while there. John Soper, Chris Price, John Heider, Robert Hall, Dorothy Charles, Gesina Stratman, Eric Erikson, oh, there are too many to list. I am now living in Los Angeles -- city of Angels -- so they say. And, it is a challenge, to say the least, to remember how to be, how to live, in an environment that is so filled with fire and materiality. Honestly, it is a struggle to stay on point. I have found people here who I care about and who I connect with. They are something like family. They know me. They know my heart. I created this web site, well, honestly, in dedication of friend of mine Andy, who passed away a little while ago. I suppose it is some small way in which, possibly, at least a little bit him lives on.
Member since Thursday, January 5, 2006
What I care about
- Interests
- music, soccer, dancing, gestalt, feeling, improv, healing, breathing, listening, creating, loving
- Books
- Catcher in the Rye, The Road Less Traveled, Drama of the Gifted Child
- Heroes
- my father
- Teachers
- John Soper, Christine Stewart Price, John Heider, my father, Nina Wise, Gesina Stratman, Esalen, Eric Erikson, Ray Swartley, David Schiffman, Kenn Chase, Robert Hall, Carolyn Braddock, Stefano Sabetti, Phyllis Shankman, Michael Meade, Brita Ostrom, Dorothy Charles
- Movies
- Star Wars, Breaking Away, A Room with a View
- Music
- Rachmaninoff, Billy Joel, Elton John, anything with grit and a beat
- Goals
- heal my body, become financially independent, create good in the world
