Barry Dayle Adams

2008-12-27T08:37:00.000-08:00

I am nobody. Why do I have to maintain so many sites to keep up with folks? Let's get over this already, find the nearest twenty-four hour diner, drink coffee, and talk.

Having said this, welcome to my personal blog. I simply wanted to have a presence so old friends and acquaintances, as well as potential new friends and acquaintances, could find me if they want and so they can distinguish me from the many other people named "Barry Adams" (who are not me) - for their sake more than mine in most cases.

Cisco, Texas is my hometown. Beyond, but of no more consequence than, being a "Cisco kid," I now earn my living as a Commander in the U.S. Navy and am assigned to the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute (NAMI) in Pensacola, Florida working with some phenomenal folks as an Aerospace Experimental Psychologist (AEP). My last job was to serve as the Combat Stress Control Project Coordinator for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Washington, D.C. I miss the job and people - not the traffic.

I still pursue songwriting and music artist development the best I can because it links so beautifully with my current research interests and work with military and athletic human performance. I miss much about my previous private psychotherapy practice working with folks (and learning from them) how to grow themselves and their relationships, and to strengthen sexual practices and dynamics - these treasures of life improve with experience and improve us as we grow, do they not? My knees, sadly, have limited my formal marathons so far to five, but I still run almost every day. I added a little five string banjo to my guitar playing and my sadly limited piano playing. I always miss Dan Fogelberg's new album.

No one will ever sing like Linda Ronstadt, really get rid of their John Denver albums (and yes, they have them somewhere in the house), write like Dostoevsky, understand the mind of James Joyce, fully appreciate Werner Erhardt's pervasive influence (love it or loathe it), differentiate Richard Bach the person from Richard Bach the character, taste words like Diane Ackerman, simplify complexity like Albert Einstein, be driven like Julius Caesar, crank out nuance like David Buss or Steve Pinker, modern mythologize like George MacDonald (or appreciate it like C. S. Lewis), follow C. G. Jung's thought train throughout a single chapter without blanking a few times, integrate smart stuff like Ken Wilber, deliver film dialogue like Aaron Sorkin in The West Wing, turn the lights on like You, or stand astonished by all the above like - well, Barry Dayle Adams. This list is subject to evolve or morph over coffee. With you.

I maintain three blogs and a forgiveness and amends blog (explained below) besides this one. One I set up because I read the news early each morning and I am often either positively motivated, or traumatically disturbed by what awaits me with my 4:30 AM coffee. My old dam news blog is my format for venting my delight and inspiration or, conversely, my horror and fury at what I read.

My other blog hails back to the magnificent old Cisco, Texas dam that inspired me and became my metaphor for trying to think big and work to engage a bunch of people in building big good stuff in the world. So, my old dam perspectives blog is there for a collaborative place to throw out perspectives outside of the more scholastic constraints as they relate to good old robust life in the universe. The idea, of course, is simply to yell out what I can see as though I am still standing on top of that massive concrete behemoth and seeing for miles around, infinitely up, and a hundred yards down into concrete jungles and bucolic valleys on one side and deep blue water on the other.

I'm obsessed with the human capacity to create limitless life, a condition I call Infinity, from very mechanistic and mundane stuff that, when mixed with magical Pixie Dust, expands into limitless experience and a tremendous amount of fun. I throw out Infinity Ideas in my Infinity Notes blog.

I enjoy keeping up with friends on Facebook at Barry D. Adams at Facebook and am "linked in" with other professional friends and colleagues at Barry D. Adams at LinkedIn.

My personal website is: BarryAdams.com

Finally, I know that public blogs potentially and perhaps inevitably can draw attention from people who have been (or feel they have been) wronged by, or have wronged (or feel they have wronged) the one putting it out there - in this case me. This is a large reason I wanted this presence out there. In this, "My Name is Earl." If forgiveness or amends are needed, I have added a note for your consideration - and mine. Forgiveness asked for and gladly given is addressed at a special "forgiveness and amends" site: http://olddamamends.blogspot.com/.

I am nobody. So why do I have to maintain so dam(n) many links to keep up with folks? Let's get over this already, find the nearest twenty-four hour diner, drink coffee, and talk.

You know. The old dam way.

Copyright, 2009. Barry Dayle Adams, old dam productions, all rights reserved.