

| Male | 
| 1950 | 
| i attended Catholic grammar school and high school, and graduated from college in 1972. i went on to drama school and there i experienced the onset of a major mental illness. since then my main focus has been on survival, recovery and spiritual growth. my best therapies are unconditional acceptance and love. and i am now emerging from my cocoon of many years as the peculiar, multi-faceted and more human butterfly my Creator intended me to be. i'm most grateful for simply being alive. | 
| poetry, opinion/editorial | 
| free verse, short prose | 
| meditation, reading, stretches, walks, volunteer work, spirituality | 
| johnwindhaven@Writing.Com | 
| johnwindhaven@wordpress.com | 
| Unity Church, Huffman House (charity) | 
| none yet | 
| poetry; short non-fiction; recovery/spiritual growth; book reviews (nytimes book review) | 
| H. Emilie Cady, Collected Works; Joel Osteen, Every Day is Friday; Emmett Fox, The Sermon on the Mount; Yasmin Davidds, Take Back Your Power; Philip Martin, The Zen Path Through Depression; B. Kipfer, Instant Karma; M. Hornbacher, Madness | 
| Joel Osteen, Emilie Cady, Cornel West, Emmett Fox | 
| Nikki Giovanni | 
| (paraphrase) you may be virtuous to the point of giving up your body to be burned, but if you don't have love you are [hollow and inadequate]--St. Paul, Corinthians 1 "you're a fine person, and you can do with some improvement." --zen proverb | 
| James Taylor, Barbara Streisand, Beethoven Symphonies, Tony Bennet, Ella Fitzgerald, Jackie Evancho, Diana Ross. | 
| Casablanca, The Ruling Class, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Across the Universe, Les Miserables, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Some Like It Hot, My Fair Lady, Sunset Boulevard |