To Assign a Title

It is high time that I put my thoughts, events and experiences on paper, and since we live in a tree-friendly world, I will pass on the paper and go straight to the web-based world of the eco-friendly internet.
My equal in height, appreciation for trips to SoCal, and sliding down the stairs while reminiscing of Hans Christian Anderson has motivated me to begin my new blog (aka D-Man). And with some much needed help of a plant-drawing sharpshootin' Cornhusker, at 2 a.m. I might add, I have constructed a blog for those privileged individuals and myself to observe while I bounce through the unpredictable and yet so wonderful passages of life.
But before I break ground on my feelings of an amazing life, I will take a step back and tell you a little bit more about the title of my blog.
Back in 1968 (with some direct quotations from Wikipedia, since I cannot find my Structural Bodywork book after my 88% final that I am currently suffering burnout from), R Buckminster Fuller coined the phrase "tensegrity". Tensegrity is a word that massage therapists often use to describe the relationship between the skeletal structure and the fascial lines/muscle fibers of the body. The word itself is a combination of (tens)ion and int(egrity). Or as Wikipedia suggests, "when push and pull have a win-win relationship with each other." Basically, push is divergent, pull is convergent.
I thought this a fitting description of how I want my life to be. Thanks to the capitalistic and social world we live in, we are often pushed to achieve financial security meanwhile exhibiting joy in our recreational pasttimes. I think a lot of my fellow Earthlings share in that fortune cookie wisdom, but I will be honest when I say that I think that the fellows of the "old school" think you should work til you drop, retire and THEN play. For me, I just can't imagine working myself into the ground until I am 65 only to throw my back out and not be able to enjoy my free time. I believe that both goals can be achieved at once. It may wear me out twice as fast, but if I am having fun in the process, well, isn't that the point?

I believe that it is my personal calling in life to bring balance to the life of those I come in contact with, work with and work on, meanwhile bringing balance back to my own. I love the words of a famous writer whose name fails me now, when he said "At the end of my life I want to be thoroughly used up." I also share that same desire, yet will do everything I can to alleviate too much tension and too much compression and therefore, keep my sanity, achieve metaphoric financial peristalsis and find a corner of the earth that is close to moving water and carve out my niche.