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Joee

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. ~John De Paola

About Me

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And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.
I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.
And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.
Pablo Neruda
I go out of the darkness
Onto a road of darkness
Lit only by the far off
Moon on the edge of the mountains.
- Izumi

My Interests



Someone passes,
And while I wonder
If it is he,
The midnight moon
Is covered with clouds.

- Lady Murasaki Shikibu

A few of my favorite things:

Hiking, Words,
Dance, Music,
Love, Exercise,
Cooking, Wellness,
Hopeless, Romantics,
Flowers, Stones,
Candles, Light,
Beauty, Prophecy,
Books, Learning,
Horses, Doggies,
Kitties, Feelings,
Children, Fish,
Holidays, Compassion,
Singing, Truth,
Fairies, Gargoyles,
Travel, Growing,
Teeth, Shoes,
Tea, Soft Things,
Shiny Things, Trees
Pretty Things,
Unique Individuals,
Laughter, Behavior,
Incense, Being,
Lullabies
Empathy. . .

I'd like to meet:



I would love to talk with someone
from every country in this small world!



I touch God in my song
as the hill touches the far-away sea
with its waterfall.
The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough.
Let my love, like sunlight, surround you
and yet give you illumined freedom.
Love remains a secret even when spoken,
for only a lover truly knows that he is loved.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.

In love I pay my endless debt to thee
for what thou art.

~Rabindranath Tagore

The purity of the moonlight,
Falling out of the immense sky,
Is so great that it freezes
The water touched by its rays.

- Anonymous

When I see the first
New moon, faint in the twilight,
I think of the moth eyebrows
Of a girl I saw only once.

- Yakamochi

My friends are fabulous!
They are passionate, unique and beautiful beings.
I am blessed to call them “friend!”

Music:


ALL

I should not have waited.
It would have been better
To have slept and dreamed,
Than to have watched night pass,
And this slow moon sink.

- Lady Akazome Emon

Movies:


Some of my favorite movies:
The Goonies (1985)
Directed by:
Richard Donner
(still makes me laugh)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Directed by:
Fernando Meirelles
(made me aware)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Directed by:
Edward Zwick
(powerful film)
The Notebook (2004)
Directed by:
Nick Cassavetes
(love)
The Haunting (1963/I)
Directed by:
Robert Wise
(classic horror)
Shooter (2007)
Directed by:
Antoine Fuqua
(reality movie)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Directed by:
James McTeigue
(it is happening)
Hellraiser (1987)
Directed by:
Clive Barker
(really scared me!)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Directed by:
Victor Fleming
(classic)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Directed by:
Joel Schumacher
(really cool film)
Little Miss Sunshine(2006)
Directed by:
Jonathan Dayton
Valerie Faris
(new mexicans aren't losers!)
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Directed by:
Stephen J. Anderson
(i loved this film)

Television:


Books:


Below are a few books
that made an impact
on my life.

“Bible”

“The Mastery of Love”
by Don Miguel Ruiz

“Grendel”
by John Gardner

“Eyes of the Tailess Animals”
by Soon Ok Lee

“Dream Work”
by Mary Oliver

“Night”
by Elie Wiesel

"Love"
by Leo Buscaglia

"The Power of Myth"
Joseph Campbell

"How to Heal Toxic Thoughts"
by Sandra Ingerman

"Flatland"
by Edwin A. Abbott

Heroes:


. . . Torrent of light and
river of the air, Along whose
bed the glimmering star are
seen, Like gold and silver
sands in some ravine . . .
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Teach me your mood,
O patient stars.
Who climb each night,
the ancient sky.
leaving on space no shade, no scars,
no trace of age, no fear to die.
- Emerson
colores
ice pop blue
whisper pink
candy cotton
sky
coral red
smoke grey
bearded Zeus
cloud
nambe silver
peeling brown
aspen stick
fence
chili red
bean black
woven native
blanket
rooted onyx
tipped amber
glazed earth
pot
stone turquoise
beating red
dusk of
santa fe
-Joee
@July 2000
This is not the moon,
Nor is this the spring,
Of other springs,
And I alone
Am still the same.
- Ariwara No Narihira
Thousands of candles can be lit
from a single candle,
and the life of the candle
will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases
by being shared.
- Buddha
The most important thing in life
is to learn how to give out love,
and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz

My Blog

from a dear friend. . .

"Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep......
Posted by Joee on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:25:00 PST

The Angel of Remembrance/Forgetfulness:

A Light That Shines Above the Fetus"According to a beautiful legend from the Jewish tradition, the fetus in the womb has a light that shines above his head that sees from one end of the universe to th...
Posted by Joee on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:00:00 PST

Is it really March in New Mexico?

My front yard! March 6, 2008...
Posted by Joee on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:24:00 PST

Parable: The Death of an Old Tree

There was once an old withered tree growing amidst the forest in the high lands. It was winter and snowing, and very cold.One day, a bird flew in from far away. The bird was tired and hungry so he l...
Posted by Joee on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:03:00 PST

Born for Love

"We all have so many possible occasions for loving and yet there is so little demonstrated love in the world. People are dying alone, crying alone. Children are being abused and elderly people are sp...
Posted by Joee on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:11:00 PST

A Legend...

According to an old Hindu legend.....there was once a time when all human beings were gods, but they so abused their divinity that Brahma, the chief god, decided to take it away from them and hide it ...
Posted by Joee on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:36:00 PST

My latest writing . . . A Gemini Dream by Joee

A Gemini DreamI follow a scarlet horse with a gold-feathered plume into an open door of an enormous brick building. Doctors and nurses rush along cement hallways, charts clutched to their breasts. The...
Posted by Joee on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:44:00 PST

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven

-onehushed soundwhite blanketsnow floats-twolittle facehides behindsticky handsfingers parti see you -threeher lite eyescould not hidethe anger of a soul -fourmother's wings glued tightdaughterset fre...
Posted by Joee on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:36:00 PST

Love by Leo Buscaglia

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being lo...
Posted by Joee on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:39:00 PST

words

LovesickFingertips outliningSilhouette warmingCenter urgingDesperation claimingSavior tormentingJ...
Posted by Joee on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:35:00 PST