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~ reading ~ watching a storm roll in ~ writing ~ beautiful art ~ painting ~ travel ~ organics ~ music ~ playing games ~ hanging out with friends ~ learning ~ playing in the summer rain ~ dancing crazy ~ design ~ fun ~ protecting elephants and other wild animals from circuses and other harm~ contributing to a greener, healthier earth ~ feng shui ~ the smell of rain ~ jazz ~ reiki ~ gardening ~ buddhism ~ natural healing ~ eBay ~ the tao ~ family ~ my two wonderful kids ~ listening to songs my son has written and is playing, especially when my husband plays along ~ self realization ~ christianity ~ natural light ~ photography ~ yoga ~ walking my dogs ~ being in balance ~ the ocean ~ nature ~ my pets ~ meditation ~ peace ~ acceptance ~ herbal remedies ~ animal rights ~ organic products & foods ~ ACEOs ~ metaphysics ~ camping ~ fishing ~ opposing the war (but supporting the troops)~ holistic health ~ poetry ~ friends, old and new ~ having lunch with my daughter ~ wildflowers and wildlife ~ camping ~ the moon ~ tarot ~ being brave enough to risk everything ~ walking on the beach ~ watching the sun set ~ exploring new places ~ singing so loud in my car that my voice gets raw ~ giving random gifts and pieces of myself ~ writing poetry ~ journaling ~ watching for double digits on the clock so I can make wishes ~ spotting a rainbow ~ ~ being with someone who makes me laugh ~ inspirational quotes ~ laughing so hard i can't breathe ~ collecting sea shells and feathers ~ making chains out of clover flowers ~ sitting in silence ~ being happy ~ dancing with my friends ~ feeling someone else's soul ~ lying on a blanket under a tree at the park ~ finding images in clouds ~ swimming ~ the smell of fresh laundry ~ discovering a great, new song for the first time ~I do not love you... a Poem by Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other waythat this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
I'd like to meet:
Jesus, Bill Murray, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Clinton, Queen Latifa, Anita Shreve, James Spader, Kevin Klein, William Hurt, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Carter, Joyce Meyer, The Dali Lama, Joel O'Steen, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Kevin Smith, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jeremy Piven, John Corbett, Al Gore, Chris Noth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matisyahu, Wayne Dyer, Thich Nahn Hanh, Jimmy Buffett - I want to be him!, Hugh Grant, Harold Ford, Barack Obama, Ziggy Marley, Van Morrison, Christiane Amanpour, Wayne Dyer, The Dixie Chicks, Amy Adams, Lisa Ling, Willie Nelson, David Duchovney, and YOU!
Music:
ARTISTS...~Green Day~
Bonnie Raitt~
Beck~
The Allman Brothers Band~
Bob Marley~
The Carpenters~
Beck~
Clint Black~
Terri Clark~
Ziggy Marley~
R.E.M.~
Prince~
The Eagles~
Bob Marley~
Counting Crows~
The Beatles~
Eric Clapton~
They Might Be Giants~
Jo Dee Messina~
Brooks and Dunn~
Nirvana~
Bruce Springsteen~
Jackson Brown~
The Bee Gees~
Toby Keith~
Alice in Chains~
Josh Groban~
John Mellencamp~
James Taylor~
Chris Issak~
Joshua Redman~
Miles Davis~
Matisyahu~
Marvin Gaye~
Talking Heads~
The Pogues~
Dave Weckl~
Morrissey~
Violent Femmes~
Jimmy Buffett~
The Mamas and The Papas~
SONGS...
~God Only Knows - The Beach Boys~
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor~
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns 'N Roses~
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes~
California Dreamin' - The Mamas and the Papas~
Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye~
One Love - Bob Marley~
I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones~
Love Shack - B-52s~
Tainted Love - Soft Cell~
Waterfalls - TLC~
Baby It's Cold Outside - Dean Martin~
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett~
Because I Got High - Afroman~
Love is My Religion - Ziggy Marley~
Don't Matter - Akon~
Loser - Beck~
Joy - Mary Mary~
BBQ Stain - Tim McGraw~
Kiss Off - Violent Femmes~
Creep - Radiohead~
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana~
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows~
Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations~
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison~
Personal Jesus - Depech Mode~
Your Body - Pretty Ricky~
When I said I Do - Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black~
Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter~
Changes in Latitudes - Jimmy Buffett~
In My Life - The Beatles~
Imagine - John Lennon~
Love is Something That You Do - Tim McGraw~
Someone Like You - Van Morrison ~
Pieces - Rascal Flatts~
Figured You Out - Nickleback~
Santeria - Sublime~
Love Song - 311~
It's Not Over - Daughtry~
Swing Life Away - Rise Against~
Counting Backwards - Brennan Struif~
Rainbow Connection - Kermit The Frog~
Picture - Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow~
My Love is Deeper - Randy Travis~
Grow Old With You - Adam Sandler~
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure~
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys~
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor~
When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Kraus~
Haunted - The Pogues~
Hero - Mariah Carey~
I Will Not Be Broken - Bonnie Raitt~
**My son Brennan's band, Little Did You Know**
Movies:
STOP THE CANADIAN SEAL HUNT! PROTECT BABY SEALS!!!
Cinema Paradiso~
Happy Endings ~
Little Miss Sunshine~
Waitress~
Very Annie Mary~
Elizabethtown~
Confetti~
Bridget Jones's Diary~
Dan in Real Life ~
Love Actually~
The Secretary~
Lost in Translation~
Life is Beautiful~
White Palace~
Amalie~
Four Weddings and a Funeral~
Sex, Lies and Videotape~
National Lampoon's Vacation~
Trains, Planes and Automobiles~
In Her Shoes~
Out of Africa~
9 1/2 Weeks~
Breakfast at Tiffany's~
Hanna and Her Sisters~
The 40 Year Old Virgin~
A Little Romance~
Jerry MaGuire~
The Razor's Edge (Version with Bill Murray)~
Stripes~
The Wizzard of Oz~
Nine and a Half Weeks~
Caddyshack~
Finding Neverland~
The Notebook~
Bridges of Madison County~
Dude, Where's My Car?~
Secretary~
The Truman Show~
Junebug~
Who Killed the Electric Car?~
Love Affair~
Groundhog Day~
The Big Chill~
Broadcast News~
Before Sunrise~
Before Sunset~
Gigi~
The King and I~
Roxanne~
Dirty Dancing~
The Shipping News~
Shallow Hal~
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner~
A Room With A View~
Working Girl~
Sabrina (original)~
The African Queen~
Casablanca~
The Breakfast Club~
Doctor Zhivago~
Empire Records~
The Way We Were~
In & Out~
Fried Green Tomatoes~
When Harry Met Sally~
Foreign Affair~
A Fish Called Wanda~
The Thorn Birds (miniseries)~
Chocolat~
The Shrink is In~
O Brother Where Art Thou~
The Full Monty~
Annie Hall~
Love Story~
Napolian Dynamite~
Danny and the Deck Chair~
An Inconvenient Truth~
Rear Window~
The Departed~
The Darjeeling Expess~
Most Independent Films~
SOME QUOTES:
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in
rising every time we fall."- Confucious
"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem
to be or actually are, raise your sights and see
possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there." - Norman Vincent Peale
Television:
Californication, Weeds, Entourage, Real Time with Bill Maher, Big Love, Rescue Me, Gilligan's Island, The L Word, 24, Sell This House, Anderson Cooper 360, The Office, Intervention, Flight of the Conchords, The Dog Whisperer, Extreme Makeover, Kathy Griffin-The B List, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Penn & Teller, What Not to Wear, In Treatment, Califonication, Some American Idol Seasons
Books:
Fiction:
Love In The Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude-
Gabrieal Garcia Marquez ~
The Weight of Water (and everything! by) - Anita Shreve ~
Cape Random (a/k/a Random Passage) & Waiting for Time -
Bernice Morgan ~
Pride and Predudice - Jane Austin ~
All The Names - Jose Saramago ~
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ~
Anna Karinia - Leo Tolstoy ~
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman ~
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf ~
Sons and Lovers and Women in Love- DH Lawrence ~
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster ~
Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes ~
The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller ~
Beloved - Toni Morrison ~
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ~
The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer ~
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough ~
The A - Z Books by Sue Grafton ~
Jemima J (and others) - Jane Green ~
Bridge Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding ~
Eat, Pray, Love ~
A Geography of Bliss - Eric Weiner ~
and
The Bible ~Visualize WORLD PEACE
Heroes:
My heroes are people who remain true to their authentic selves, those who are compassionate and filled with lovingkindness, and people who give their hearts to help others. I honor those in serving professions, caretakers -especially of children, elderly, animals and nature - as well as those who put their lives on the line for the rest of us. Everyday people can be heroes, and often are.
I HOPE YOU CAN HEAR THE BELL Just up the road from my home is a field with two horses in it.
From a distance, each looks like every other horse. But if you
stop your car or are walking by, you will notice something quite
amazing.Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is
blind. His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has
made a good home for him. This alone is amazing. If nearby and
listening, you will hear the sound of a bell. Looking around for
the source of the sound, you will see that it comes from the
smaller horse in the field.Attached to her halter is a small bell. It lets her blind
friend know where she is, so he can follow her. As you stand and
watch these two friends, you'll see how she is always checking on
him, and that he will listen for her bell and then slowly walk to
where she is, trusting that she will not lead him astray.
When she returns to the shelter of the barn each evening, she
stops occasionally and looks back, making sure her friend isn't
too far behind to hear the bell.
Like the owners of these two horses, God does not throw us away
just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or
challenges. God watches over us and even brings others into our
lives to help us when we are in need.
Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little
ringing bell of those who God places in our lives. Other times
we are the guide horse, helping others see.Good friends are like this. You don't always see them, but you
know they are always there. Please listen for my bell and I'll listen for yours. - Author UnknownFREEDOM OF RELIGION MEANS for ALL RELIGIONS!
