healing a wounded world.
making differences.
convincing myself I don't suck.
planting things and watching them grow.
cooking.
playing bass in a grooving band.
digging in the dirt.
late-night radio. art bell/coast to coast am,
old houses and changing neighborhoods.
making amends.
being a good friend.
wood floors in the afternoon.
conspiracy theory,
charlie rose,
sadness
The Oasis Austin, Texas US food-runner, bar back, busser garbage bags breaking apart, spilling salsa, broken beer bottles, and soggy cigarettes, onto his head.
1997
Austin Java Company Austin, Texas US barista met Amanda Freeman
1998
Kerbey Lane Cafe Austin, Texas US server, cashier, expo working hard, working for the greater good...and getting fired.
1999 - 2003
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas Austin, Texas US Case worker working man
2003 - 2006
Austin Independent School District Austin, TX US Substitute Teacher
2003, 2006-
NYOS Charter School Austin, TX US the younger one moving shit around, moving it back, and then eventually throwing it out into giant dumpster division
About me: Zachary’s life is an ongoing maelstrom of choices, cause and effect, finding passion, finding bliss, and finding an artistic safe place.
Zachary loves life, his experiences, his friends, the people he has met along the way... He continues to deal with this and that, triumph and defeat, debilitating moods, and pure joy. He will love you one moment, and will want to crush you the next.
Zachary enjoys the basic components of life. Zachary has not found religion. Zachary looks for a higher power. Zachary struggles to mediate and reconcile the life and experiences of his youth, and the changing circumstances of adulthood. Zachary questions when such a threshold was crossed.
Zachary looks in the mirror and wonders about what he has done, what he will do, and what will come of all of this.
Zachary ultimately loves you. His empathic skills make him sad. They make him want to disappear.
Zachary will do his best to remember your name. He asks that you not be angered if he forgets. It is not a reflection of his connection to you.
It is without a shadow of doubt that “age brings wisdom.” You can’t refute that you’re the same person you once were when you were 7, 8, 9 plus years old. My remark is about growing in life and being more aware and knowledgeable: learning, growing and experiencing spiritually, emotionally, intellectually. In 5, 10 and 20 years from now you will know more than you now do from experience and knowledge.
Making a campaign promise is easy for those listen and follow like sheep and believe “words” without validation. What one says is different from what one DOES. Know the difference; words fall to the ground. Thus far the increased situation with Russia (blink, gotta shoot hoops, Obama) and showing up late for his FIRST day on the job n(gee, stock market, GM, job loss...hey, let's print Monopoly money..you can pass GO). It spears Obama's main focus is on what puppy will occupy the White House (clueless in comatose America) instead of REAL issues at hand and declining stock market, decrease of jobs, declining mortgages, economic issues that are (ehem) a little more sever than WHOOPIE WE MADE HISTORY! Keep clapping; if it sounds to good to be true, IT IS. I hate to rain on your historic parade but you’ve looked through rose-colored glasses. Wait and watch and stay tuned. If the innocence of believing, hunger or words, deaf ears in not wanting to really know what makes sense, then it's a person who believes in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Your magical moment of historic time will soon be realized.
Lenny Bruce said it best, "We're all the same schmuck." or was it when he said, "I'll die young, but it's like kissing God." Either way, you feel good and you understand, I suppose.
