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, performing songs (many of which I've written) to help encourage people to relax and imagine they're enjoying a cold drink on a warm beach. In my “copious free time, I’m an organic gardener, Reiki master, and wanderer. I am learning to own and increase the amount of love in my life, whether I'm with someone else or not. I'm neither a couch potato nor an athlete - never was good at sports because I wasn't quite coordinated enough, but I love to go walking.

I’m an introvert who plays an extrovert on stage, and occasionally at parties.

I am a healer and occasional dancer between worlds. I listen to the voices in my head. I am empathic, strongly so with a select few. Maybe with you? I'm learning that I am the source of all of the love in my own life, and it's...changing things.

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, barring exceptional delays.

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

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

I have been in monogamous relationships and in polyamorous relationships, with varying degrees of success. I think that both types can work or not, depending on the people involved. At this point in my life, I am primarily interested in finding someone I can go deeply with and co-create relationship with on all levels - emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical. I have learned how to listen, how to communicate authentically, how to be fully present despite more than a bit of ADD, how to honor the Divine in my fellow beings, and these things I blissfully bring to the right partner. The level of openness of such a relationship is open to negotiation, but I wouldn't do well with someone is insecure or has difficulty managing jealousy, nor with someone who can't prioritize at least some reliable space for me in their life.

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

I am authentic, humorous, creative, and cuddly

Learning how to truly love myself, and what that means for my connections with absolutely everything else. Learning to embody bliss and manifest abundance in its many forms. Singing fun songs about dropping everything and running off to some tropical paradise, complete with fruity rum drinks (rum optional). 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, fine beverages, 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.

- To the sensitive, that I have good energy and an open heart.

Books: 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."

Movies: 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, Avatar, 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, but am now catching up thanks to Netflix - wanna help?

Music: 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) :) Too many others to list.

Food: sushi! Italian, Mexican, almost anything but Thai & Vietnamese.

TV: Not so much anymore, though there are some things I'm watching on Netflix. *Good* science fiction, when it happens. Mythbusters, the Weather Channel, HGTV, Babylon 5, CNN.

My guitar

A good library or bookstore

Someplace to walk, preferably out in Nature

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 bliss?" 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?

Being. Becoming. Something like that.

I might be out playing a gig somewhere. Want to be an appreciative audience?

Or I might be out with friends. Or home with a book or the current Netflix, or working on something music-related.

Occasionally, at a workshop or class or some such.

I admit nothing. :)

Have you done at least some of the work on yourself, made peace with your inner shadow, learned how to own and speak your truth with compassion, authenticity, and power? Do you love yourself? Are you willing to learn together, breathe together, co-create together?

Are you looking to connect on multiple levels with someone - physical/chemical, intellectual, emotional, energetic/spiritual?

Does a lot of what I say appeal to you, make sense to you or sound like something you could have written?

Do you already know me and want to say hi? Do you think I might be worth knowing, even just as a friend? Do you know how to communicate effectively and authentically?

Are you looking for a friend who shares some of the same interests?

Then by all means...say hi. :)