About Erik
Rescue yourself from these general themes and write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty. Describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world's sound - wouldn't you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attention to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. And if out of this turning within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. That's a quote taken from Letters to a Young Poet. It's pretty much how I feel about things. I love dogs, snowboarding, hiking and scuba diving. If you saw my movie collection, you'd see Action movies, documentaries, some drama, Anime, sci-fi and foreign films. My book cases look about the same, a lot of how-to books, history, sci-fi, poetry, cooking and your general mish mash of the recommended books I've read. I'm usually the person who is asked for the sports score and my reply is something like, Is that a baseball team or football? I'd rather race or play the game than spend time watching it, but I have watched some games with friends. I also like to run my own small business... I think that about covers it.... Oh, last year I went to Burning Man for the first time. If you haven't been you should go. It's fun and there's fun people there you can hangout with, dance with and look at some cool art with.
