My life revolves around music (my bread and my passion), the people I love (friends, family, communities), and spiritual practice (which often involves communing with the natural world and moving my body).
I don't have a cell phone. This seems to be a really important fact to most people, whether they think it's great or that I'm crazy. So there's that.
I tend to be a bit serious and kind of intense, but as I get older am much more inclined to laugh at myself. That's a big reason I seek out human company - to laugh together until it hurts!
Charlie King wrote a song that says "our life is more than our work and our work is more than our jobs." I'm trying to learn how to live that.
Also - I don't actually identify as bisexual, but queer. I feel that label allows room for the spectrum of gender identity instead of implying that there are two distinct and opposite genders.

I'm finishing up my second solo album. I tour a lot with a band I'm in and when I'm home I teach. I've been doing the full-time-working-musician thing for more than four years, but am currently shifting my focus to my solo career. Scary and exciting! Honestly, that work is at the center of my life right now and keeps me very busy. But I also spend time cooking, going on long meanders with my dog, talktalktalking with friends near and far, lap swimming, bike riding, playing games, reading, sauna-ing. I am both introverted/protective of my alone time and very social. I have a pretty vast network of friends and have long-standing, deep friendships with a good number of folks.

I would like to say that my life includes a lot of political action and growing my own food and living in community. It has in the past and will again in the future. For now, I get those important needs met in bits and pieces where I can.

connecting people with each other. I often find myself in groups of people where I am the hub - the connecting piece between them all.

I love to cook. I've been a vegetarian my whole life and gluten free for the last 4 years, but even my meat-and-bread-atarian friends will travel long distances to eat in my kitchen. Been on a bit of a pie kick lately…

organizing and planning stuff

listening and talking

I kind of hate this question.

I love novels, especially historical fiction. I LIKE non-fiction, I'm just really slow at it, whereas I can tear through novels like a hungry beast if I've got the time. Some favorites are Anne Lamott, Barbara Kingsolver, Arundhati Roy, Pema Chodron, Derrick Jensen. Recently enjoyed Sex at Dawn, which seems to be relevant around here.

Music… I lean in a folky/acoustic direction, but love me some rock n' roll. My whole life and being is steeped deeply in music, but I'm horrible at naming and categorizing. I'm not a very good record collector/historian/music geek, I guess. Here are a few people I've listened to in the last week:
Gillian Welch, Aretha Franklin, Dr. John, Edgar Meyer, Holcombe Waller, J.S. Bach, Ani DiFranco, Neil Young, Alice Di Micele, Johnny Cash.

Food is a good reason to be alive. I could eat mexican food every day. Mostly my tastes tend toward whole foods, fresh vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes combined in the tastiest of ways. But I also love eating out which sometimes has to involve cheese fries or nachos.

I'm rather uneducated (and slightly uninterested) when it comes to film. I mean, I love going to/watching movies, but I'm all about the stories and not about the craft. And if I do too much movie watching I start to feel disconnected from real life which brings me down. I tend to like dramas, historical stuff, documentaries, old films.

TV? Have never lived with a functioning one. But have recently, for better and for worse, learned about watching television series on my computer. So now there's Mad Men and Damages and Breaking Bad in my life. A delicious escape that I sometimes wish didn't exist.

human connection
touch
trees
water
music
stories

Songwriting ideas. How to heal. What I want to cook. Sex. Ways to live that don't involve dependence on fossil fuels and the war machine. Juggling my crazy schedule that is different every day. How people may have perceived things I've said or done. Trips I want to take. The lives of the people I encounter (making up stories about them). How to be a better ally to trans folks. What the people I love are doing right now.

Playing a show. Or playing charades with a room full of friends. Or having a drink with a friend from out of town. Or vacuuming all the dog hair off of everything in my apartment. Or babysitting for a friend's kid.

Most anything, face to face.

My life is full and rich and satisfying and fun, but I find I'm craving more romance / physical affection / sexual connection than I'm experiencing lately. My creative work is at the center of my life right now and my commitment to it is primary. I'm not actively seeking partnership right now (though I'm not closed to that possibility). I *am* looking for chemistry, sexual spark, loving touch with people I feel connected to. I feel slightly crazy looking for that here…. but I'm here….. so maybe there are folks like me here too…. (in which case you should message me!)