Meet Beau.

Beau is Beau. He is quite the hard man to introduce. He is insightful and intelligent, he is unlike any other man you’ll meet. Take a moment to get to know him here.  And if you ever need a good movie suggestion or review, he’s your man.

Do you believe people are innately good?
I think it is a very hard thing to be consistently good – something that takes deliberate action and concentration. I am not sure that something innate would be so difficult. Certainly, it is a skill that we can develope. I think people have an innate desire to improve and even to love, but whether it enters a person’s deeper nature seems to depend on what they do with their better impulses.

What is your passion?
This question seems much more simple than it is. Passion is, by definition, separate from thought or reason – it is pure feeling. But I cannot help but think about it. Different people have said it in different ways, but we know that what holds our attention holds our “self,” and that can be frightening if you examine it carefully. Not that it ever needs to stay that way. As a person “thinketh in his heart, so it he.” So, in spite of what we would like our passions to be, our current life may suggest something very different.
But I am wandering from what you are really asking, Tif – – I get excited about transferring ideas and emotions in a way that truly resonates with people. That is what has pointed me toward artistic mediums – especially writing and cinema – as a way of speaking to someone with more than words . . . and a way of being spoken to.
Liberty – even the word – raises something I would call passion in me. When a person says they dislike the political sciences I think they suffer from a misunderstanding. We are surrounded by it, we live in it – it is the way we communicate with each other and improve our situation. It makes just as much sense to hate air or water. One does not love it or hate it – it simply is, and we either come to understand it or we do not. Liberty can be loved though – and it ought to be.
The short answer (TL;DR, if you will) is learning. Whether it is through conversation, or travel, reading, watching – I cannot get enough. And you cannot enjoy it without sharing it, relating what you find.
I have affinity for learning about the brain and cognition, about perspective, about design, language and its development, nutrition, history, the animal kingdoms, culinary arts . . . really, there are more fields than I can name. Unfortunately I am not yet very disciplined in my study.

You are known to be a serious man, why do you believe that is? not that you are known to be but why are you?
Oh my. I think the opinion of my level of “seriousness” would vary greatly depending on who you talk to. It probably comes from a tendency to be very deliberate. A friend told me it is allowing myself to feel the weight of the world.
I think too much whimsy can rob beauty. However, I surround myself with whimsical people and often enjoy the fruits of those relationships.

Would you consider yourself an optimist?
On my better days I am very ambitious – that may be a sort of optimism – but I do not think there is a person alive who having known me for more than a few hours would label me an optimist.
I have a profound beliefs that could carry over – there are many people I know on whom I place tremendous faith. I know many people who will surmount incredible odds.
In the end I am far too deceptive to be a devout optimist.

How do you manage stress?
Poorly. In some of the worst possible ways, but I suppose I am better at it now than I once was. I will use distraction and physical exercise – when I am doing my best in life I will find ways to be useful to someone.
Really, I have to grasp at a sense of the transitory nature of emotion and opinion. Our view shifts with time, our emotions change with the day. Each year that becomes more steady in my mind. Even one night of sleep can change the game.

How do you find joy (in the journey of life?)
Do we really find Joy? There are people who heap misery upon themselves trying to “find Joy,” as if it were a great corner cafe or a lost cat. Expecting to arrive at Joy as a destination is to misunderstand.
I think Joy must be elusive. You find it by pursuing it. It is about movement – you have to keep in motion to feel Joy. Growing. If you look for it where you thought you felt it before you will discover it has gone away. That is why human beings are able to accomplish so much. If you stay where you are atrophy begins. You die – in every sense.