Ricky Barnes
Title: Rationally Passionate Writer
Age: 48
Sun Sign: Virgo
Chinese Sign: Metal Rat
Location: Seattle, WA
About Me:
I'm foremost an individualist, a deliberate dreamer and avid lifelong learner. I believe in passions filtered respectfully through sound thinking and reason continually driven by a unquenchable lust for life. I'm deeply committed to authenticity and strongly drawn to all those committed to the same. I created and chose the name “Naumadd” (pronounced “nomad”) because, always independent of what I'm doing, where I'm at or who I'm with, I've seen myself as a traveler, a wanderer with no single or established home. I believe no place or time can genuinely belong to us. Places, people, things , moments are forever transitory as it is with our own lives. “Permanency” and “ownership” are illusions. To keep one's station is stagnation, anti-life and, in many ways, a walking death.
Of Scottish/Irish, English and Native American descent, I'm a veteran of the U.S. armed forces, a writer, professional linguist and foreign-language translator, a hungry reader, independent scholar, and somewhat obsessive artist. I've lived in the northwestern United States for over ten years and absolutely adore mountains. Ancient forests, most fondly the California Redwoods serve as my mentors and I crave all the snow you can give me. Rainy days and tumultuous weather quiet my chaos and inspire me. Dark gray days are my favorite and always have been. I find sunlight an insult to the mind, body and spirit in too large a dose.
Someone once said, “Each instant is a place we've never been.” I like to think that each moment of our personal lives is a moment only we could have created and can never be created again. We are each one-of-a-kind in the entire universe and the moments we create the rarest of gems. We sing our uniqueness into the universe and create new time and space radiating in all directions - inwardly and outwardly. The spiral within spiral within spiral is the way of all things and the path and mantra of my own personal life.
in a lake of shadow called Memory,
bleeding,
bleeding into the waves. ”
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I try to contribute fresh new poems or haiku at these places here at Gaia when I'm able:
I also tend to write quite a bit at Digg.com and at OpposingViews.com when I have the opportunity:
For those who may be interested, I keep my primary photo album and Naumaddic Arts collection at Google's Picasa Website and tend to be semi-active at Flickr as well. The artwork, of course, can be found primarily at Cafepress.
For want of a better place to list them, these are among my favorite artists:
Thanks so much for visiting my profile.
I wish for you peace, love, awe and long life.
– Naumadd
will be said many times.
What I have not said
cannot be said again. ”
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Things Naumadd Loves
Goals
- Write more than Samuel Pepys
- Meet Stephen King
- See Antarctica
- See Machu Pichu
- Travel into Space
- Write a screenplay
- Write five novels
- Create a cathedral to mankind
- Change the world.
- Constant Learning
- To stay fully awake in each moment
- write a book
- Read 100 books each year
- Create 1000 Paper Dragonflies
