Michael Shunta Ozaki - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am a man in transition. From one type of life to another; one thought to the next, one place to a different, one situation to a new. Through too much thinking and other times not enough. But in it all one eye on grace, the face of love in less interesting terms. My name is Mike and I have recently come back from living for a year and a half in one of the most amazing places on earth, Africa. I love it, I miss it and some day I'm gonna go back. What did I do there? I helped (I hope) families and children that are HIV affected. But now I'm back home in california. And it's good to be home. P.S. I've decided to change the world...I'll tell ya how it's going some time.

My Interests

I love Jesus. And people. And I wouldn't mind being defined by that. Also Plato said: beauty is the essence of all thing beautiful and lovely. I tend to agree. I love music, that admitadly I know almost nothing about it. I love to travel. There is almost nowhere I don't want ot go. Especially if it's dirty and dangerous and no other tourists around.

I'd like to meet:

Most of the people I'd like to meet are dead... C.S. Lewis, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Job, Abraham Lincon, Thomas Pain, Marcus Garvey. Most of the people I'd like to meet who are alive, no one knows about. And I don't want to just meet them. I want to get to know them. Tribes in Papa New Guinea, chiefs in the Amazon, soldiers in North Korea, terrorists in Iraq, women in Lebenon, child soldiers in Uganda, high school kids who feel unseen, collage students who wrestle with truth because they want to know it soo bad, jr. Highers who feel pushed aside. That's who I want to meet, the ones no one else wants to.%D%A

Music:

You name it, if it's got somthing to say I like it. And even some that have nothing to say but have a good beat.Artists: Sufjan Stephens, Kings of Convenience, Over the Rhine, Relient K, Blindside, Mafiki Zolo, Five Iron Frenzy, O.C. Supertones, Billie Holiday, Jars of Clay, Rage Against the Machine, Black Eye Peas, Eminem, Kanye West, Motion City Soundtrack, David Crowder Band, Johnny Cash, Oasis

Movies:

In no difinitive order: Garden State, Matrix (all 3), U571, Schindler's List, Saving Prive Ryan, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, King Kong, Almost Famous, Anchorman, American History X, Millions, Amile, Kung Foo Hustle, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Television:

I love you Tivo!Myth Busters, Simpsons, The Daily Show, Scrubs...that's about all I get to these days.

Books:

Waking the Dead, The Outsiders, Blue Like Jazz, The Giver, Dark Stare Safari, The Heavenly Man, DaVinci Code

Heroes:

Christ, Job, Loren Cunningham, Martin Luther King, Ghandi...so many.

My Blog

A blog on Blogs, (aka) a blog blog, (aka) Thoughts on blogging.

I love blogging. I love the idea of putting ones thought out there in a cohesive and organized manor. Which is in stark contrast to how we often feel we are communicating ourselves to the world.I love...
Posted by Michael Shunta Ozaki on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:54:00 PST

reason (not excuse) for my failure (well at least one of them)

Obviously I never did what the below blog promised. Much to the disappointment and chagrin of one Mrs. McLaughlin. My apologies. Why, you ask. Like any decision made by even remotely thinking humans, ...
Posted by Michael Shunta Ozaki on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:38:00 PST

Those I poorly reflect

I am convinced more and more that who I am is a result of the people that God has brought me into contact with. i am a kind of poor reflection off some of them. This is especially true of a few who I ...
Posted by Michael Shunta Ozaki on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:17:00 PST

connections

At what level must we connect with people in order to love them? how vulnerable must we become.Saul wrote, "above all things guard your heart, for it is the well spring of life." Can i still truly lov...
Posted by Michael Shunta Ozaki on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:29:00 PST

words words words....with a sprinkle of meaning

In the search for truth we follow great but fleeting scents I catch upon the wind. They lead us in their direction, in frantic desperate steps. Then fade away into the mire of the familiar smoke of he...
Posted by Michael Shunta Ozaki on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:22:00 PST

Wishes

The other day i was at work and walking to a class room. A line of children were waiting in line to go to lunch as i passed their waist height little selves i hear 2 boys talking. Boy 1: my brother do...
Posted by Michael Shunta Ozaki on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:52:00 PST

another poem

A poem......I PRAY.....I pray for deathFor death to over whelm and carry me Away from meFar away from what we seeThe broken truths of youth and wandering we got lost but liedto our friends and to our ...
Posted by Michael Shunta Ozaki on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:54:00 PST

conversations

Allison:I need to get married by the time I'm 24!Mike:Why? you have your whole life to be married...what are you going to do once you married? Allison:I...I only have so many years to get my eggs fert...
Posted by Michael Shunta Ozaki on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:08:00 PST

Psh...you would read this, wouldn't you.

There are certain sentences that if you fespond to someone else with them, it really doesn't matter what you say, it's kind of insulting.Case and point; "you would _______." IT really doesnt matter w...
Posted by Michael Shunta Ozaki on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:09:00 PST

Materialism

This last week I got a cell phone and bought a computer...and now I'm conflicted. Things we own so quickly begin to own us. I don't want that becasue I think it's one of the great demons of the americ...
Posted by Michael Shunta Ozaki on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:44:00 PST