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Albert is a man from Asheville, North Carolina, USA

I'm odd, something that those who love me love about me, or so they say ;-).

I love people who are unafraid of themselves and are odd in their own ways.

I am here - in this world - to communicate, in all the myriad ways possible, with anyone who wishes to share my song. I am here to love and be loved, to tickle reality into fleeting existence. I am here to laugh and to kiss every day hello. I am here to learn and I am here to teach.

I am the father of two amazing daughters, eighteen and twenty-one. They say that they are out to save the world and I have no doubt that they will.

In the institutional green corridors of the Newark NJ airport I literally ran into a solitary Muhammed Ali who advised a gawky young man on his way to Vietnam to "stay alive soldier." I took his advice. I met and had lengthy conversations with the wonderfully intuitive Louise March, one of G. I. Gurdjieff's primary lieutenants, who in the course of one hour told me more about myself than I would have ever figured out. They are two of my heroes and are more important to my life than they will ever know.

I am male in body, but consider that irrelevant to the essence of what I am, to what any of us are. I love who I love, it is that simple and that complex. None of the gender labels fit and I am happy about that.

I worked for years for a large multi-national as a professional in Information Technology, primarily doing project management and global network design. I left that world when it became more of a duty than the calling it had been. Too young to retire, I then worked for a while in a technical call-center, first as an agent and then as a supervisor. I left there to work in an honest-to-goodness factory where drive axles and transmissions for heavy trucks are manufactured.

I love to travel and have been just about everywhere but South America and Africa, shortcomings I plan to rectify. I've skied the Alps, hiked the Outback, flown the polar rout to Japan, eaten crab on Boogie Street in Singapore, sampled the savory human stew of Shanghai and the exuberant chaos of Ho Chi Minh City, I've walked the night streets of Sydney, Zurich, Vienna, Berlin, New York, and Oslo. I've gotten stuck in the subway of Moscow, bathed on the French Riviera, taken the Chunnel between London and Paris, and swam for days in the Louvre where I would still be if only they hadn't invented closing hours.

I'll have to add to that sometime; I've been to more places. But no matter where I've been one thing emerges; unassailable, clear, profound, obvious - the people are the same. That's one of the great things about this point in history. For the first time we have easy and almost ubiquitous access to virtually any community in the world. If we cannot find "our" community within the confines of local geography, we most certainly can find it "out here."