User:Taosein
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Following are my areas of interest:
Appalachian Region: raised in a military mountain family, eventually moved to ancestral lands here in the mountians. Currently working in the employment field. Very interested in current local plant-closings and unemployment disasters, plus other cultural and economic issues.
Horses: dressage, gaited, hunter/jumper riding instruction, trail riding, barn management, training (mostly finishing). I have about 15 years of professional experience with horses, which payed for 10 years of college, thank Heaven. Now riding Paso Finos, but still too new to that breed to contribute meaningfully to Wikipedia on that topic. Just got published in the Paso Fino Horse World magazine, though, January edition.....so there's hope!
Poetry: all kinds. Have been published here and there, most recently in a book called, "Honku: the Zen Alternative to Road Rage."
Heidegger: I completed my bachelor's degree specialty (Philosophy and English, 1985: Berea College) under Dr. John Wallhauser, Professor Emeritus - Berea College. Dr. W specialized in the ethics and theology of Schleiermacher; history of theology and philosophy; hermeneutics; aesthetics. Heidegger's seminal "What Is Metaphysics" still astonishes and delights me no end.
Taoism: my Master's Degree specialty (Religious Studies, 1993: UNC-CH) combined equestrian arts with Taoism and Zen Buddhism. I studied under Jim Sanford, Professor Emeritus. Dr. Sanford specialized in Far Eastern Religions, such as Tantric Buddhism in China and Japan; Buddhist Poetry; and literature associated with the Taoist Inner Alchemy Tradition. While there, I also took one year of Mandarin (putonghua), a year of Daodejing, Zhuangzi and other texts (wenyan) and three smesters of Chinese poetry (wenyan) with Professor J. P. Seaton, who most recently collaborated with Ursula K. Le Guin on her translation of the Taoist classic. For several blessed years, Dr. Seaton deepened my understanding of poetry and translation, not to mention of ancient Chinese (wen-yan).
Star Trek: con-going trekkie as a kid, now "have all the specs and diagrams at home"...plan to complete the Wiki articles on the ST original novels.
In the interest of full disclosure - I am also a follower of Jesus Christ, a born again Bible reader. This has not affected my peer-reviewed scholarship (B.A. and M.A.), and will not on Wiki. Raised in a generic Protestant church, church issues have never interested me, nor have I any affiliations thereunto. I consider my responsibility as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ to "be Jesus to the world": lift up, encourage, listen, sweep the floor and carry water, speak the truth in love, tell the Good News when asked and when the Spirit moves, and above all to be as much a gentleman (gentlelady) to the world as Jesus has always been. He never forces Himself or His beliefs on others, preferring to "stand at the door and knock". I'm fascinated by harmonies between Zen and Heidegger and Qi and Jesus' teachings, but those are separate issues from saving grace, the heart of the matter. Nuf said. I won't impose my business, but just so's ya know where my heart is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Appalachian_culture
