I reside in the best country(my total "objective" opinion) in the world, Canada.

I earned two university degrees. I am happily married and we have one daughter and one dog.

It requires a lot of blood, sweat and tears to be a poet/writer, especially if you're a WASP or/and a MAM. We are fast becoming an extinct species, after having dominated much of human history in the Western world for way too long. Phew, it's hard to say that, but it's true. So where does that leave us, probably on the bottom rung of the ladder of history for a few centuries anyway to redress all of the collective wrongs we're guilty of. Atonement time. Enough rambling, this is starting to sound like a prose poem, maybe it is. Hope you haven't fallen asleep.

Favorites

Movies: Chariots of Fire, many of Ingmar Bergman's films,
The Mission, Gandhi, well, you get the idea.

Music: Classical-e.g., J.S. Bach, Mozart, etc.
Folk, Celtic
World music, e.g., Nexus
A variety of other forms as well ranging
from ancient to contemporary.

Poets: Everyone from ancient authors of the Bible,
to Shakespeare, Tennyson, Whitman, Frost, Dickenson,
and contemporary poets, myself included.