I like being outdoors. I enjoy the peace and tranquility of a quiet forest, or the soothing sound of a river, as the water cascades over the rocks. I definitely have an affinity for water.

Sometimes, as much as I like people, I just have to get away and spend time on my own, enjoying nature. It's an opportunity to clear the mind, to concentrate, contemplate, and meditate on life and how everything around me interacts with everything else around me.

For me, everything is connected in one way or another, no matter how obscure that connection may seem. Thoughts and scenarios intertwine and inter-lock; reality and theory; past, present, and future. Everything has a connection, whether temporally, spatially, emotionally, or neurologically. It's interesting to consider the myriad connections, but when everything spiderwebs out from the middle, even trying to explain the most basic of concepts can be a real bear...