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            Some things about Michael McGrinder


Playwright--has written many one-act and several full-length plays
                              Most recently, The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie, full-length play based on
                              the transcript of a 17th-century Highlands confessing witch
Director--directed plays ranging from 5-minute sketches to Hamlet
Poet--click on the poetry 'n things link to see a few of his thousand or more poems
Short-Story Writer--won a short-story contest while in the Air Force (where he flew a desk)
                 contest was judged by Agatha Christie.  Had dinner with her at the American                              Embassy, where she dropped a clue as to her disappearance.  Don't                                          ask--he's writing about it, and doesn't want to give it away--at least not just yet.
Novelist--    has completed The No Name Murders, a mystery novel with comic overtones,
                 set in Greenwich Village.  Sequel now in progress
Novella Writer-- a novella about Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a human being
Essayist--most recently, The Economics of Burning a Witch

Really good looking--women tell him this, too much of a gentleman to argue!
Women also tell him he has beautiful arms.  He doesn't understand that one, doesn't need to.
Great Laugh.
Favorite part of anyone is their smile.
Reckless Eyebrows
5'10" sometimes 5'11" -- getting older will do that to you
187 lbs--fluctuating
Keeps strange hours and is happy that he can
Is able to keep so-called normal hours when necessary
Has trouble getting places on time but does
Enjoys photography; is good at it
Loves art
Loves ballet
Yankees fan
Aries--March 30, same as Vincent Van Gogh
(has been known to have ear problems)
Aquarius rising--3:56 am--expect the unexpected
Scorpio Moon--heh heh!
Likes to walk
Likes people but doesn't mind being alone
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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door.  It opens.  I've been knocking from the inside.
                                             --Rumi
                Healing Laughter

I believe in laughter, in its power, in its healing properties.

Think of how you feel when you've been hurt.

Think of how you feel when your spirits have been uplifted.

Think of how you feel when you laugh.

Right now, smile (yes, right now); feel how you feel.

Laugh out loud. How do you feel (other than silly, which is okay)?


When he was a young man, Steve Allen wrote a short story about a man who was executed publicly in Yankee Stadium. All in attendance hated the condemned man to death.

That's right, hated him to death.

Think how you feel when you've been hurt. Now, imagine if you were in Yankee Stadium or some other public venue where thousands of people were hating you all at once.


CHANGE THE SCENARIO--


You're in the same place. Everyone is sending love to you on waves of laughter. It is directed exactly where you want it.

I think we heal our wounds, psychic and physical, with the joy of laughter.

It is limited only by the limitations we accept.  
                     
                                                             --Michael McGrinder

Music he'd want on a desert island

Villa-Lobos Bacchianas Brasilieras
Mahler's Ninth
Miles Davis Round Midnight (the original recording)
Miles Davis Porgy n Bess
Chet Baker Sings
Louis and Ella Together
Sinatra--Songs for Swinging Lovers
The Complete Piano Music of Chopin
The Complete Piano Music of Debussy
The Complete Pablo Casals Cello Solos
Elgar Cello Concerto featuring Jacqueline DuPre
Erroll Garner Concert by the Sea

caveat: has no desire to be on a desert island and if he               ever is, hopes there is electricity

Healing Laughter
The healing power of laughter is a joke at its best. Send me your healing jokes, one-liners, etc. Give permission to post it and tell me how you want to be credited. Can't use everything, and may have to excerpt some, but everything is appreciated. Especially want to know when healing laughter was a force in your life or in the life of someone close to you.

Did God ever talk directly to you?
Want to talk about it here?

The Mind
(and Matters)
of Michael McGrinder

This page was last updated on: March 22, 2004

laughwrite@yahoo.com  Contact me here.
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The Mind
(and Matters)
of Michael McGrinder

This page was last updated on: March 22, 2004

laughwrite@yahoo.com  Contact me here.
                                                                Yes! I want to hear from you.                                                                        

Email: laughwrite@yahoo.com