Aged 9 was fascinated with diaries of combatants from WW1. Both grandfathers served and were injured (Battles of Verdun & Somme). Most fascinated with the air pilots & curiously Verner Voss (German) was my fave, (I'm english). Wanted to become a fighter-pilot aged 10. Then my eye-sight started to deteriorate (hereditary: both father and grandfather wore glasses). Good thing though, as I turned pacifist and vegan aged 13 so bombing people from the air isn't really my style now. Then Art College. But I really wanted to be a ROCK STAR/musician/guitarist and spent almost very waking minute for a few years working on song ideas, lyrics, thinking about our band. But ...of course that never happened. So then the usual: followed an eastern guru, renounced the world, sold all my equipment and records to get an airfare to India, spent a few years in bum-jobs getting enough money to go back to India for half the year, etc., etc. Then got a regular job, marriage, children. And then in my late forties start re-buying instruments, records and playing in a band again. Life is so circular! I am interested in Diet and nutrition; Philosophy; musical improvisation; human foibles; the future; the past (history); the ever elusive here and now; reminiscing; cogitating; woffling on-and-on in on-line discussion group, exploring the;;link between mind and matter.