Title: Atrayu & Bastian

Gender: Male

Age: 28

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Chinese Sign: Metal Rooster

Location: Omaha

We all have a mythos, a “speech, thought, story, myth” from which we come.  The village of nine hundred and three people in whose bosom I became lags behind cultural evolution and has been quite pleased about this.  Looking back at the past century, I see equal representation of that-from-which-I-come in Willa Cather, Norman Rockwell, and, perhaps, Garrison Keillor.  It's that from which Kerouac fled, Dean rebelled, Leary tried to inspire, Kesey couldn't freak out, Thompson tried to rally, Buchanan speaks to, Reagan was brought to power through, and some would say, the American Dream hasn't yet been paroled from.

Nevermind Ishmael; Melville was too wordy.  Call me the confused voice of Americana, signing on to serve as I've always wanted at the age of 17.  After all, Midgard is a temporary realm according to my Swedish ancestors and Hel a place for warriors who die without glory.

I'm a small town boy who, as a young man, allowed himself to soak in the sentimentalities of the city, scratched its underbelly, found employment with book peddlers in the information industry, embodied idealism, and became ordered to war.

Returning from Iraq to hearth and home, I found niche with no civil crowd.  I experimented in life with those who recite culture, followed by they who cull passions, and have settled among they who profess the Living Faith.

During the journey I've earned myself a Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction.  Each night, I practice defining that which the term means.  We'll both see where it leads…

Check out this bookshelf if you want to understand the broad range of interests with which I indentify.  One other individual who has known me for years defined me as a walking juxtaposition.  I believe this is wholly adequate.

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