Brian Donohue

Long Island University, Bard College

writer, technology, counselor, blogger

technology, cats, kids, golf, reading, writing, blogging, Macs, classical music, jazz

Kafka's The Trial, Robert Bly's Iron John, Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, Thucydides, Camus' The Plague, Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Thackeray, Rilke, Rumi, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, the I Ching, Alan Watts' Way of Zen, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books

To Kill a Mockingbird, The Green Mile, The Iron Giant, Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, Dreams (Kurosawa), Life of Brian (Monty Python)

Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Miles Davis, Telemann, John Williams, The Doors, Beethoven, Weather Report, Vas

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Democracy Now!

I am the webmaster, editor, and principal writer for the Daily rEvolution weblog, which has been in existence since 2004. I also have written and self-published four books on psycho-spiritual healing in a time of violence and estrangement, and I am a counselor and professional consultant who works with private clients, groups, and workshops in a unique, interactive approach to psychotherapy and personal development that draws on Taoist insights in leading people through personal crisis, mental illness, life decisions, and interpersonal conflict.

My day job is in IT, as a business analyst for a large corporation. I live in Brooklyn NY with a 13 year old daughter and one black cat.

A relationship is a connection between individuals, an attraction that is neither absorptive nor hierarchical. Think of the figure 8 turned on its side--that is, the symbol for infinity. Each of the parts is unique and autonomous, but they are connected and draw energy from one another. One does not take over or absorb the other: each is independent, but is strengthened by the connection with the other.

If you can understand this, then we already have something in common and will most likely connect.