Call me Ismael. That or Chris Blight. I was born in July many years ago in the wild west of the United States of America. My sign is Cancer. In fact, I’d prefer dying from Cancer than dying from Syphilis.

I began college at 16, I finished at 26 . I believe I will be back for more. I’ve studied at 2 universities and a community college all in Utah. My major studies were in Visual Art, English Literature, Psychology, Criminal Justice and I received my degree in Philosophy.

My major focuses in my studies appear to be based on three things.
Why do people behave how we do?
How should we choose to live?
Appreciation of beauty in all things in synthesis.

With these focuses, and the man I am becoming, where is my place in this world…what is this world, what are my beliefs about this world, do I have a duty to meet my beliefs, to enact them upon or in harmony with the world I live in, and in what way?

My first love is Art. My greatest love is Wisdom. Aesthetics: creativity and appreciation. As an artist, I am sometimes enslaved by the passions, the muses, and the elation of love. As a warrior I aim to be enslaved by nothing, acting only in harmory and at war with my environment as necessary. As a philosopher I try to take my nature in stride, and make use of the positive aspects. Love is all you need…to be happy. Friends, family, and lovers. Fun, freedom, and accomplishment.

I am a man; just a man. I’m just a guy, that’s all. I’m not my job, my religion, nor my possessions. I am a mind, a body, and possibly a soul. I have torn down my presumptions, and with them my doubts. Hitting bottom, I was left with no place else to go but up. In still admiration and awe I observe the world. I perceive my environment through the lenses of a child. And like such, so do I soak up all that I can, in perhaps vain hopes of truth, if not happiness. In every moment of my waking life I seek to learn, progress, and experience as much out of life as I can. The simple-minded see things as simple, while the deep explore the extremities and complexities of life abondoned – world ignored. Knowledge is overrated, confused, and abused, but to understand the world, to catch even a glimpse of the abyss and to return understanding…now that would truly be something.