When I was a child. As an adult I have felt fear and vulnerability. Sometimes fear has taken me over and i experience the insecurity I was in as a child and i feel like i am re-living it over again. More recently I experience vulnerability which, I think, is necessary for me to grow, change, feel excited, and be spontaneous. Love of myself and others is the key to moving through the vulnerable experiences.

Do you mean dreams or goals? I have many dreams, some fantasies, some hopes, some expectations, and many goals.  I share my dreams and goals to my close friends and anyone who wants to know. I don't feel the need to be secretive about them but I also am mindful of who I talk to about them. The last person I shared my dreams with was a friend I spent 2 days with. It was a beautiful experience.

I would like to have woken up this morning with someone special close by my side. We would have a lie in, on this Sunday morning, and talk about all the wonderful experiences in our lives. We would talk of love and of creating new experiences together.  As it is,  I am happy drinking my coffee, doing my morning yoga practice, and writing on Gaia but being with someone right now would just make my day perfect.

mmmm........ this is making me think........ I am questioning the meaning of tolerance. I am going to answer it as I understand the meaning. I am not as tolerant as I used to be and I am happier because of it. I was brought up to Please Others and Be Strong -  "stiff upper lip" and all that.................I am more in touch with myself then ever before because I allow it. I don't get impatient with people or things much anymore because I  don't put up with people or things that I don't like. As a psychotherapist at work I am listening intently and I am empathetically attuned to the person underneath all the trauma, or confusion and I really love doing my job. Sometimes in my job it is important for me to be intolerant if I feel it and sometimes it isn't.  When I am not at work I respond to what is presented to me as honestly and as openly as I can even though sometimes my directness can be off putting to some. Don't get me wrong I still take peoples feelings into account, but I am much more balanced about it than I used to be. Before I didn't take my own feelings and needs into account and i think it just created more confusion for them as well as for me.

I love this question.  I look forward to my yoga stretch, meditation,and my  cup of coffee in the morning. I look forward to drawing my bow across my violin to make violinsounds. The sooner I can do that the more content I am. I plan my day around my violin practice. I am feeling the excitement as my weekly lesson gets closer, or chamber music rehearsal, or orchestra practice. I look forward to meeting my room mates in the kitchen. Which one will I talk to today? I live with 10 roommates in a large co-op house. Every day is beautiful and I love how the unexpected occurs which seems to be a lot lately. I need my routines and my practice,  but I also need the spontaneous, the surprises, the adventurous. And it all is happening. I could go on and on about every thing that makes me want to get up and experience the day ahead of me but I would be here for a long time writing and I now feel the urge to play again.
Love Everywhere
Tom

I like to meet people naturally. By that i mean I want it to sort of just happen. The circumstances just bring you and me together. We are sharing a common interest and we do something together that invites a natural conversation and a desire on both our parts to get to know one another. I have recently joined a dating site. And although a dating site has a purpose to get people together it does feel a little strange. However I am curious. I am in no hurry to meet someone and yet I am opening myself up to possibilities. I suppose it is not much more different than going to a party.......I don't know.
I joined this site so I could meet people who have similar interests, goals, and inspirations as I do. I was thinking that I would like to meet musicians but lthinking like that  is limiting. I now am open to meet men and women who I like to be with. So I guess the answer to the question is I don't know but I am open to possibilities and finding my favorite ways of meeting people.

Sincerity.

My son Dylan. Here is an amazing picture of him standing infront of an Arbutus Tree on the Island of Salt Spring in British Columbia. Dylan is 10 years old. I was amazed when my wife was pregnant with him and amazed when he was born. Wow what an experience! I loved my wife and my son so much then - it is indescribable. I stayed at home with him for the first 6 months. Definately the most expansive experience ever. I love you Dylan.

Settling in to my new home. Making new friends. Romance. Being in tune. Developing my musical knowledge and becoming proficient on the violin. The UNEXPECTED!

My breath, sensations, love and  harmony.