I’m a student of how the world works. I like finding the patterns in things, and comparing them to the patterns in other things.

I’m an “escape artist,” trying to live an authentic life in which there’s always something to celebrate, nothing is worth getting stressed over, and every day is treated like a holiday, no matter what I’m doing.

I am a healer and a dancer between worlds. I listen to the voices in my head. I am empathic, strongly so with a select few.

By day, I am a mild-mannered tech writer for a major metropolitan software company. By night I entertain, amuse, and delight audiences near and far. In my “copious free time, I’m an organic gardener, Reiki master, and aspiring Tantrika.

I’m an introvert who plays an extrovert on stage and on YouTube.

I value honesty and authenticity, creativity, humor, personal responsibility, and a positive attitude. I keep any commitments I make – if I say I’m going to show up at 2 PM on Thursday, I’m there somewhere between 1:55 and 2.

Love is a verb, and intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Emotional baggage is limited to one suitcase plus a carryon. No hazardous waste.

I’m polyamorous by nature - *capable* of loving more than one person at a time, whether I'm doing so at the moment or not. I'm willing to be flexible about that in a really serious primary relationship - if we're right together, then we'll co-create the relationship that fits for us.

I read voraciously. Books, magazines, the backs of cereal boxes; nothing is safe.

Being outdoors is good, but when it's really wet and windy, there is wisdom in watching it from indoors next to a welcoming fire.

Quickmatchers: GardenMinstrel

Learning how to live happily ever after. Singing fun songs about dropping everything and running off to some tropical paradise, complete with fruity rum drinks. Impersonating a corporate drone for fun and profit. Learning to see more deeply into the nature of my fellow two-leggeds and the rest of reality. Becoming exceptional. Learning how to shine and sparkle with all of my energy, learning how to communicate more effectively and authentically, just *learning*. :) Tempting nice people with good chocolate and booze and the occasional foot rub in the hot tub.

Writing, listening, cuddling, more-than-cuddling, communicating, intelligent conversation, surreal leaps of near-logic, back rubs, front rubs, playing my own music, organic gardening, empathy, seeing the world from other perspectives than my own. Homebrewing.

- I'm tall.

- I wear glasses.

- I'm funny (humorous).

- I'm intelligent.

a) Anything by Spider Robinson, lots of science fiction and fantasy, gardening books; metaphysics, especially Richard Bach, Sun Bear, and Dan Millman; personal growth, too many others to name. I read the backs of packages when there aren't any books in reach. "I gave my books their own room; now they want the rest of the house."

b) Casablanca, Princess Bride, Chicken Run, Play it Again Sam, Star Wars IV and VI, Star Trek IV and VI, and the new one, Galaxy Quest, LOTR, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Where the Buffalo Roam, Koyaanisqatsi, Serenity, Emerald Forest, Dances with Wolves. I'm about ten years behind on movie/video watching - wanna come over and help me catch up?

c) Jimmy Buffett, Jim Morrison, ELP, classic rock, contemporary country (at least some of it), contemporary folk, Bach, Beethoven, Sunny Jim White, my own (www.lorendavidson.com) :)

d) sushi! Italian, Mexican, almost anything but Thai & Vietnamese.

TV: Things like Stargate, also Mythbusters, the Weather Channel, HGTV, Babylon 5, CNN.

My guitar

A good library or bookstore

Someplace to walk

Someplace to garden

Touch and companionship

My sense of humor

What am I doing here? How can I do it better? What does it mean to "embody joy?" What are the patterns in what I see around me? How much of my own food could I grow in my yard if I really *had* to, and what would I do with the surplus? What are the limits of what can be accomplished through magic? Through compassion? Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Typical? What's that?

If I'm home, either I've got company or I'm watching something involving science fiction on that cable channel with the funky new name.

If I'm out, I might be playing a gig, watching friends play a gig, or being social in some other way.

I admit nothing. :)

Spammers/scammers: Don't bother. This is not my first week on the Internet. Really. And stop filling my mailbox with your "Favorites" requests too. Not. Interested. Period.

If you'd be interested in being pampered, but not spoiled. If you are exceptional and empathic, and looking for the same.

If some of what I say appeals to you, makes sense to you or sounds like something you could have written.

If you already know me and want to say hi, if you think I might be worth knowing, if you know how to communicate effectively and authentically.

If you're relatively local and looking for interesting, intelligent, stimulating conversation or a fun time out at some local place listening to my live music and hanging out with my friends and fans.

Update 10/26/09:At the moment, open to friendships and common interests only, as my romantic plate is rather nicely full. :)