charlieomatic

General details


  • charlieomatic

  • New York City

  • Charlie Helinski

  • graduate of Stony Brook University


  • English

In short

  • Regarding my writing, I write what I have long practiced - intuitive process, education and music. I am a craftsman who is addicted to perfecting his workmanship.  I notice the small and sometimes deep things in life - Whether it is how boys delayed speech mastery affects their early classroom learning or scientifically solving the old argument among composer as to how colors and sounds relate, or untangling the Japanese long association of death with north south sleeping.  I write and illustrate for children.  I write poetry that is more story like and not a puzzle to be be figured out.

  • I am a composer who admires Bach and Byrd, a classical guitarist, cellist, pianist, and player of blockflote.  I have been a homeschooing stay at home dad for 15 years;  I am intuitive and have an intimate understanding of meditation.  I am  familiar with Tokyo and New York cities.  I have worked in apple and potato farming, lobstering, beekeeping, and in a shipyard.  Though undocumented, as a teen, I flew a kite for over three weeks for world record.  When I want something, it tends to find me.  Like when I was a child and read of there being only 10 copper pennies from 1943 and found the 11th.

My Favorites: Reading and Writing

  • These come to mind now. . . The Aleph-Bet Story illustrated by Ben Shawn, Edward Gorey's Abecedarium and his The Gashleycrumb Tines, William Steig's The Bad Speller, The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien, Color by Victoria Finlay, The Illustrated Book of Living Things by Momoko Sakura, early and mid Charles Schultz books, The MeAmLoez commentary on Torah, and Nothing But The Best by Judith Kogan.
  • World Mask by Akiva Tasz and I various easy French readers.
  • It's funny, but I actually like reading on the subway.  I like reading in an upstairs bedroom in Tokyo and somewhere in NYC I don't want to tell about so it doesn't get crowded.
  • Short stories.  Music. This answer.  Working on. . . How Kabbala Actually Works in Day to Day Life.
  • I asked my wife and son and they had better answers than mine. 

    My wife wanted to be someone who could do something she can't to experience it.  She settled on Rostropovich to be able to play the cello masterfully (though she had reservations about his pot belly). 

    My son would choose a very rich person and transfer his money to himself in that day. 

    I just wanted to have some happy person who was on vacation in a very nice place for that day.
  • The above, plus Rashi, E.E. Cummings, and Shakespeare.