Hello, you all. I am 82 years old, now. I live in a senior Independent home, Westminster Gardens, here in Tallahassee, Florida.

My first name, "Freestone", is my grandfather's last name, my mother gave me his last name, for a first name.

I do not feel like I am 82 years old.

I tend to be liberal in social issues and the arts, but conservative in daily living. Some people might call me a "psychic" or even a "mystic", but I also like to have my feet on the ground! I have a very strong feeling nature and I love to tell stories. People call me an "intellectual", but I do not call myself that, as I think in images, being right-brained. I also think in metaphors and analogies. North Carolina researchers found that this Carolina state has 105 accent zones, the South probably has a thousand accents. I would "choose" the "storyteller" accent, as my own version of a southern accent.

Interests: travel, philosophy, politics, Spirituality, spelunking, walking, nature: probably 500 more interests. Attention deficit syndrome? Yes, I have that. I have lived in Tallahassee for nearly 60 years, except for a few years in western North Carolina and Johnson City, Tennessee.

I have grown a goatee, as of March! A skin cancer removal made this area so sensitive that shaving is now done with!

I grew up in a *very* rural area of Upstate New York, with 28 kids in my senior class. The "country boy"! But! I have lived in New York City, and loved this time of my life!

I took the Ancestry.com DNA test recently. I have no Native American genes, they tell me. Lots of Scottish, English, Viking, and Celtic genes. They have a section for "communities". Yes, I belong to the Western New England group, I knew this already. but I have a *huge* Royal shock! I have a *second* Community! The Scotch Irish/German group. The group that settled the entire South.

Florida State University, 1960s. U S Air Force also. Yes, I have worn many hats over the years, the freshman beanie, the Air Force cap, the hippie acid taker cap, the computer operator visor, the "janitor" cap, and the Tarot reader hat.

Enjoy my writings, please comment.

Freestone Wilson.