25 things you didn't know

This "25 things" meme is like karaoke, or square dancing: once it reaches a certain point you just have to join in and have a good time.

So here goes.

1. Growing up on Georgian Bay did more to shape me than almost anything else.

2. I consider myself ethnically Canadian.

3. Music moves me in ways I can only describe as divine.

4. Every day I run the gamut from exhilaration to despair, often before 10 am.

5. I am elitist in my sensitivities, but populist in my sympathies.

6. I accept the Buddhist precepts but I am a very poor practitioner.

7. I cannot watch horror, or any movie or show where children or animals are hurt.

8. My main best habits are eating well, walking, and staying in touch with friends.

9. I find gambling and pornography both offensive.

10. I've run every vehicle I've owned into the ground.

11. Besides English and French, I speak basic Spanish and some Norwegian.

12. Planting 300,000+ trees in my twenties made me rather treeish in thought.

13. I'm extremely sensitive to passive-aggressive behaviour.

14. I'm an unskilled, undisciplined hockey player with a foul mouth.

15. I hate it when people assume I'm left-leaning, politically.

16. I regret not having found a religious community I feel comfortable in.

17. I have nearly managed to free myself of the concept of linear time.

18. I don't care what is done with my body when I die.

19. I think schadenfreude is a dangerous indulgence.

20. I can forgive anybody but myself.

21. I don't believe in taking credit for artistic inspiration.

22. I think consciousness is the unexplored frontier.

23. My attitude about love is conflicted and mostly unromantic.

24. I believe I am meant to have a national outlet for my voice and perspective.

25. The only person who's ever made perfect sense to me is my daughter Jayke.