DANIEL BLUE: MEET BEN MEERSMAN >>>

Ben Meersman no longer lives in Tacoma, but he is a genuine product of our pleasant village.   

I met Ben through our mutual friend Joel Meyers, who was a fellow ballet dancer and emotional magician. 

Ben is the strongest human male I know. His physique is nothing short of epic, lifting young women and young men all over the stage in statuesque animation.   How is that possible, to be static and dynamic in the same moment?  I do not know, but it is pleasurable to view. 

Ben falls no measure short of being described as sweet.  His character is mature and his tolerance is high.  Patient and kind, his soft voice soothes one into a trance of sorts, wherein a body desires to simply find companionship with the source of utterance. 

Ben now dances in a cabaret in an underground bar aptly named the Can Can at the entrance to Pike Place Market.  His apartment deck looks down on the Seattle Art Museum's Hammering Man.  He has become a metropolitan ballet demigod, but as I teasingly called him a traitor he seemed genuinely hurt and said, "Daniel, I love this town."    

Your love is good enough for now.