Affinities and Identities

While trying to come up with something to say in my profile for this
blog, I began thinking about identity. A profile is one thing, a
portrait is another, and the whole person of course transcends them
all.

This internet we're on serves as much as anything as a screen, a
distancer, and creates the illusion of anonymity. True anonymity is a
precious right, and therefore a right which is under attack. And of
course anonymity is not available on the internet.

Some affinities I'd like to persue on this blog and elsewhere, on the
way to a "profile"L
cocktails
goldfinches
permaculture
Slow Food
domestic food production
tropical foods, especially chocolate
primates, including Nina, matriarch of the gorilla clan in Woodland
Park Zoo
herbalism
Ayurveda