David Smith:  

Life I've had a strange and colorful passage through this river of life, and though a place like this may make it seem to be possible to return to a self of a previous life, it is not the same--the subsequent experiences have changed me too. If I was to have met myself now at as the person I was in high school and college, from this perspective I would have admired the idealism I had in those days, while finding the egotism of my earlier self harder to endure. In the years since I was writing poetry for many of them, publishing one in a magazine (another was accepted, but the book never made publication). I spent a lot of time reading in various venues in NYC during that time. For awhile I could have been a university computer geek, but my desire to make a difference in the world intervened and I spent 5 years in a clandestine organizing group (it is now somewhat notorious as a political cult, but some of us who participated found a way out and made it a learning experience in the travails of our life). I finally left the New York area and moved to western CT in 1990 where I met my wife Mardi (we married in 1992) and began to raise our two children. At that time I converted to Judiasm (...Expand for more