Things I love

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. And I'm not hiding it.

I'm Matt.

I am a small, handsome, hyper-competitive, self-obsessed, obsessive-compulsive, macho, self-loving, self-promotional, and self-absorbed man who has spent his life in the service of his country.

I've been married to my wife for 37 years.

I like to think of myself as an ideal husband, a devoted father, a country boy, a loyal friend, a lover of the arts, a lover of adventure and adventure's sake. I love to travel. I love to be in the arms of my friends. I love to talk to strangers. I love to write. I love to have fun.

I am not, at any rate, ashamed of my true love.

And I'm not ashamed of my relationship.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. And I love writing.

It's hard to name a single moment in my life that I've gone too far. But the moment that has stuck with me the longest is when I was in college. I was hanging out with some friends in a bar when I heard a girl say to her friend, "I'm gonna be your girlfriend." She said, "No, no, no." She said, "I'm not gonna be your girlfriend."

I said, "You can ask her."

She said, "No, no, I wouldn't, I wouldn't. I never would."

"Well, you don't know me, so you can't ask me," I said, and I laughed. I could see in her eyes the deep fear of what she was going to say to you.

"They're blank stares," she said.

"It doesn't matter," I said. "You're going to say it anyway. You're going to say it."

She went on about her life. "How are you?"

"I'm not sure," I said.

"Good," she said. "I'll have you check out her."

She called me a hired gun.

"You can ask her," I said.

She dropped me off at the bus stop.

"I'll have a friend come with me," I said.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. And I love watching movies.

But looking around at the world, I find myself wanting to know more. And I don't take anything for granted. I don't accept anything for granted.

I have always wanted to be a writer. I'm a student of literature, and I teach at Princeton University. I'm passionate about the arts and I'm a graduate of the New School. But I haven't written a book yet.

When I was a child, my father told me that there were five great books that would, in the end, drive me insane. He didn't mean to be a burden on me or to make me feel like I had to read them. He meant only to irritate me. And I think he did it with great effect.

I think that today, as the world passes away, it is perhaps better to be a writer than a reader.

I remember well one of the first books that I read, and it was a well-known novel in the United States, and was entitled The Long Walk to Freedom. It took me a long time to get through it, and I have since been a chronic reader of fiction, but I have never read any Dostoevsky or Tolstoy.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts.

So when I was asked to join the House of Counsellors in March last year, I knew immediately that it was an opportunity I wanted to seize.

It was a move that would take me through all the hallways of the North West, where, as I was told, there are some of the best people in the country. I loved the fact that I was a caring, hardworking volunteer who wanted to help people not only in my own ward but all over the city. I was very proud that I had helped the old women who had been the victims of the Doncaster bombing, and that I had found a way to help the young women of the ward who had been the victims of the firebombing of Pase. I was very proud of my work as a counsellor and I loved the fact that I had joined the Smiths, the world-famous charity, to help put food on the table. I found myself more and more asked to help residents of the ward where I had come from, who had been victims of the firebombing, who were struggling to pay their rent, and who were struggling to keep the family business alive.

I was very proud of that work, but more than that I was proud of the work of the council, the community organisations, and the people who had worked with me in my own ward and who had been part of my ward service for many years.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. I love sitting down with an empty glass of water and contemplating everything that's happening around me.

That's the way I have chosen to spend my time.

I'm not sure how to explain it but I'm just really grateful for everything I do. I'm happy to be here, to be a part of a better world. I'm grateful for my family, my friends and all who are here to welcome me.

I just wanted to give you a bit more of an update on where I am. I'll be taking my first trip to Cuba in just over a week, so I have plenty of time to get my bearings.

I'm getting back into it now, I'm enjoying myself and I'm ready to do something much bigger with my life.

And now I'm getting back on the road.

Thanks again for reading, John

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. I love listening to music. I love listening to my own music.

When I discovered the great jazz musician, jazzman, saxophonist, and drummer (and onetime member of the Maysles Brothers) John Coltrane I was hooked, not only because he was also a great musician, but because he had a talent for connecting with people who were willing to listen to him. After successfully making his first record in 1961, Coltrane moved to Chicago, where he worked with the Black Panthers. He played with them for two years as a member of the Women's March. He was with them until he was arrested for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, and was released in 1965. He was a member of the band that formed the backbone of the new Rock and Roll Movement.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts.

My music is a lot like my tattoo. I love using my tattoos to express my innermost thoughts.

I think it's important to be an artist who doesn't always get the credit for what he does. Many artists are obsessed with being famous, but I'm not.

I've had a lot of tattoos in my life. Some I had before being a musician, some I'd never have even thought of.

I have a tattoo of my name on my right arm. It's a symbol of my family.

I have a tattoo of an owl on my chest. It's a symbol of my love of owls.

I have a tattoo of a mirror on my neck. It's a symbol of the world.

I have a tattoo of a heart on my right breast. It's a symbol of my emotions.

I have a tattoo of a pink rose on my left arm. It's a symbol of my family.

I have a tattoo of a butterfly on my arm. It's a symbol of my love of butterflies.

I have a tattoo of a circular on my back. It's a symbol of my love of circles.

I have a tattoo of a dress of white flowers on my back. It's a symbol of my pride.

I have a tattoo of a rose that I'm wearing on my left breast. It's a symbol of my love of roses.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. I love playing video games for hours, and I love watching something interesting on YouTube. Mobile games are awesome, fun, and I love them. But they aren't the goal of our project. We like to put phones in our pockets, and we like to play games on our phones. I love to play games with friends. I love spending time with them. But my phone is always with me, and I am constantly trying to find new experiences. As part of the project, we will be taking the concept of a "game" and applying it to a mobile app. It will be a fun combination of games and mobile apps. What makes a game fun is that it doesn't have to be fun when it comes to finding new experiences, but it can be fun when it comes to discovery. The main goal of the app is to be simple enough to be accessible to anyone. It is designed for anyone who wants, with a few additional constraints, to make a game centered around a theme or a story. A game is fun when it is easy, when it is fun when the players can do things that don't require a lot of thought, and when it is fun when the game feels like a real game. What makes a game feel like a real game?

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. And most of all, I love to talk to my friends.

He knows that, when he finally gives up the habit, he will regret it.

"My friends know that, too," says he. "They know what I'm up to. But they don't like me. They don't like my tastes. They don't like my politics. They don't like my tastes.

"And, I guess, they just don't know how to talk to me."

"I think that is the fundamental problem with the American mind," says the scientist, smiling. "We don't know how to talk to ourselves. We have to go out into the world and observe it. And yet we are unable to talk to ourselves.

"There is a certain nerve pain in the soul which I have found to be the most remarkable in human nature. It is a pain which shocks us with its intensity. It is a pain which can kill a man as much as it can charm him. It is a pain that can ruin a woman as much as it can excite her. It is a pain which, if it can be cured by religion, will be the most necessary for the salvation of the world. We cannot stop it."

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts.

But I've never been up here, and I've never been in a band, so I never really had a chance to really learn the band. But I thought this was a good place to take a look. I've been up there for a few years, and it's just really interesting. I don't know if it was the hot weather or the fact that I had really good friends up there, but I figured I could just hang out a while.

Okay, you're up here. We're up here.

The idea of this place, the band, is to have a couple of musicians here, and to play our first show in a bar. I've got a guitar, a bass, and a snare drum. It's a fairly smaller stage, so we're going to play in a small little venue right here. It's not like it's a big venue.

We're playing a little show with a couple of friends. A couple of hours or so ago, a couple of us were in the band, and we played some tunes in a bar.

And then we're sitting out here with a couple of buddies, and we've got a good time.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts.

I'm hard-pressed to find a hobby that doesn't require me to find something interesting to do. I'm from a family of artists, and my father is a painter who taught me how to paint. I love gardening, and when I get a chance I tend to start my own.

When I was in college, I spent a semester moving from one campus to another, studying university courses in philosophy and economics. The first semester was terrible, but I gradually developed a taste for the finer points of economics. I attended one of the best universities in town and became a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

I'm glad I could go with my friends. I'm glad that I have a comfortable home which I can call my own. I'm glad that my friends are there for me, that they are my friends as well.

But I'm not.

I am fortunate to live in a time when my friends are not my friends. They are my enemies, their enemies as well.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. And I love making music.

What I've learned about myself over the past couple of years is that I'm not necessarily one of those people. I'm not just a guy who likes dancing with his friends. I'm not just a guy who enjoys shopping in my local drive-thru. I'm not just a guy who likes to watch football on Sundays. I'm not a guy who really likes dancing. I'm not a guy who likes talking to strangers, I'm not a guy who likes spontaneous adventures. I'm not a guy who likes singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I'm not a guy who likes sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. And I'm not a guy who really likes talking to strangers. I'm not a guy who really likes shopping in my local drive-thru. I'm not a guy who likes watching football on Sundays. I'm not a guy who really likes dancing. I'm not a guy who really likes talking to strangers.

I'm not alone, either.

I know that there are millions of people in the world who are just like you.

But what's the one thing that defines you?

It's not what you do – it's the way you think, the way you speak, the way you feel, the way you act.

That's why I'm here, to share my thoughts on the world around me.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. Good music is my hobby. I have an iPod, I listen to music on a laptop, and I have a stack of paperbacks.

I used to have a life filled with so much, but nothing was ever quite right. It was like I was sold on everything.

I don't remember being born, but I remember that I was born on the day of the next moonrise.

I hope that after reading this I can help you find your own way to happiness.

Thank you,

Michael

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. I love cooking and baking. I love playing music, writing and singing.

And so, for the first time in my life, I'm going to make an adventure video.

I'm going to make an adventure video about the town of Washington, DC.

For a while now, I've had the idea for this video for a while. I do not know exactly when the video started, but I believe it was late last year. My friend and I were talking about the town of Washington, DC, and what we would like to do with it. We were talking about it, and we were both thinking about how we would make an adventure video about the town, and how we would make it interesting. We were both thinking that we would put together a crew and go out and do some filming.

We decided that we would want to go out and do some filming. We knew of the event that would be happening in Washington, DC as we were walking around it. And we knew that it would be fun, and we had gotten used to seeing our friends and family in the city. We decided that we were going to go out and make this video. We had started a page on Instagram, and we had started a Facebook page. We had started a web page, and we had started a YouTube channel.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. I'm not afraid to put myself out there and I'm so open to being a bit unconventional. I enjoy living near the sea and enjoying the colorful people who live there.

But none of that makes me a "master of the universe" like you.

I think of myself as the last of the old-fashioned Brothers of the Sea.

There was one, on the island of Cap Madonna, which was so large, so beautiful and so small that it was as big as any man could have dreamed up. It was on the small island of Clavieve, about twenty miles from Ireland.

We were sitting on a hill overlooking the sea, watching the clouds roll up over the hills.

"I'm afraid I'm going to find out," said my brother. "I've got a ship on it."

"I'll have you know there's no better ship I ever saw."

"But it's a shabby old ship with a big crow-wing on it."

"It's a cockney old ship. And it's got a huge mast and a huge iron keel."

"It's a very old ship, and it's worth ten ducats."

"What son of a bitch do you think I am?"

"You're the only one who's ever given me a real trouble."

"Yes, you are."

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. And I love making music.

But I love talking about my family. I love talking about my friends. I love talking about my wife. I love talking about my job. And it's not about me, it's about my family I just don't have the time to talk about it.

IF YOU ARE A PERSON IN A NATION THAT HAS DREAMED OF A FAMILY FOR A LONG TIME, you have probably had a few discussions about relationships.

Most of us have heard of "the honeymoon phase". In which young people take their first steps into relationships and and even marry on their first date. But, it is not the honeymoon phase for those who have been married for twenty-five years or more.

For those who have been married for one hundred years or more, the honeymoon phase lasts for a year or more and is marked by the onset of the "lonely couple" relationship.

Most of us do not know why the honeymoon phase has been referred to as "the lone couple", but it is here that the family needs to be made.

I have been married for twenty-five years, and I have seen many things in my life that I still believe make me happy. But, I have seen more than one family in my life that has lost its way.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. And I thought it might be nice to share some of my plans for the last few years.

I've been teaching a class called "The Art of Living Your Life" for the past six years, and I'm writing this book for the first time. I love it. It's a bit like a deep dive into the art of living, but it's also an extended lesson in how to live your life.

I thought it might be fun to share a couple of of my most popular posts on my blog: one about yoga, and one about the art of meditation.

Here's what I've learned from the five years I've been practicing yoga and meditation:

In a world that is constantly looking for answers, everything lies in the hands of humans.

Every day, I take my yoga class, my meditation class, and my reflection class. With all of these classes, I spend about 20 to 30 minutes learning something new. I try to do some of my own practice, but I also learn from my fellow students.

In my meditations, I focus on my own human qualities, rather than the judgemental world of the world around me.

In meditation, I focus on our own nature, and on what we can do to change it.

Finally, I enjoy watching my kids grow. I watch them develop their own individual gifts, and I watch them develop my own.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. What I can't do is go out to meet people.

I've been to Canada twice. I'm still pretty much the same guy, but I'm not as outgoing. I'm not as opinionated or as self-absorbed. I don't have the same 'political' views as I used to. I'm not as often a proponent of what I believe. But I've certainly had a better time here than I would at home.

If you thought I was going to give the world the whole 'sandwich, a crystal, a Coke and a bar' package, well, that's how it is.

I'm always going to find it difficult to talk to people at parties, but I can throw open the door to anyone with an idea.

I think the real core of the problem is most of the people who have been accepted here are never going to be able to get back into the city.

The perception is that there is a big accommodation shortage and that the old city is going to be put to use. That's not true. There is a new apartment complex in the West End and that's going to be ready in a year or two and all the old buildings are going to be demolished. Those old buildings are going to be replaced with new ones.

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts.

So this is my new job.

I'm working at a blog called Sugar. It's a blog about food, and I'm in the middle of a project where I'll be looking at food trends in the US.

I'm expecting that to take a couple of years.

So why, I ask, do you want to start Sugar?

I met my wife, my mother-in-law, who is a nurse, at a local restaurant. I asked her if she would like to start a blog, and she went ahead and did it.

The website is called sugarblog.com, and it's 100% free. I think most of the content is collected and distributed by people who have been in the food industry for a very long time. They are old friends, people who have worked there for years. And they keep coming up with new recipes, new ways of cooking, and new ways of showing their appreciation for the food we eat.

So I started to think, "Wow, if I can do that, maybe I can attract a lot of people."

And then I thought, "Well, I don't have to be a professional chef to do it."

I love talking to strangers, I love spontaneous adventures. I love singing and dancing wearing my headphones. I love sitting somewhere beautiful and sketching out my thoughts. And I'm not afraid to try out new things, especially if I know it's going to be fun.

But I think there's one topic that has stood out as the one area where I've had an incredible amount of success. All of you know me. I don't know you, but I know you've never been interested in me. You've never been interested in my music. You've never been interested in my writing.

I'm the only writer in the country who's been more successful than me. But there's one thing I've never learned. If you can understand, then you have to study it. And I think you've learned from me. And I think you've learned from me as well.

So, again, if you're interested in my story, then you'll have to read it. I'm willing to share it with you.

I was born in the city of Syracuse, New York, and grew up in the upper East Side neighborhood. It was an interesting neighborhood to grow up in. Its black and white, its industrial and its rowhouse, the whole place was a magnet for the working man. It was a crime-ridden neighborhood, but I never thought I would live there again after leaving school. In fact, I never looked back.