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Koala Quality

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About Me

...and without further ado, I bid you adieu.

My Interests

sunrises, quiet nights, good books, good conversations, belly laughter, butterflies, butterfly kisses, eskimo kisses, french kisses, eskimo friends, smiles, young people, elderly people, middle-aged people, people people, peace, spring rain, sleeping in, ice cream sandwiches, peak-experiences, warm showers, hugs, fallings stars, old friends, new family, green tea, love, reconciliation, snow angels, fresh baked bread, fresh-cut grass, country bike rides, good-will, random acts of kindness, Erik Satie, people having a slightly higher opinions of themselves than is warranted, puppies, Christmas, chex mix, discovery, bodies of water, the human body, willow trees, neighborhood children, impressionism, storms, big white puffy clouds, beauty, life, you

I'd like to meet:

you

Music:

Sigur Ros, Keane, Portishead, Coldplay, John Mayer, Don Ross, Phil Keaggy, Radiohead, Kotaro Oshio, Tuck and Patti, Andy McKee, Steve Vai, Flaming Lips, Jen's mixed cds, Ryan Coon, Slider, Novis, Left on Northwood, Cassiopia, Justin Blackburn, The Chrono Logic, Morgan Olson, Tyler Tubbs, Michael Hedges, Beach Boys, Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Tommy Emmanuel, Pink Floyd, Victor Wooten, Debussy, Satie, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Ravel "The Billy Mac Music Story"

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Movies:

Blow, Kensey, Hotel Rwanda, Invisible Children, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Saved, Steel Magnolias, Silence of the Lambs, American History X, Road to Perdition, Moulin Rouge, Chocolat, Punch Drunk Love, Click, I (heart) Huckabees, The Very Long Kiss Goodbye, the Truman Show, Love Actually, Harriet, Amelie...

Television:

Family Guy

Books:

Tagore; Rumi; cummings; Whitman; Frank O'Hara; William Blake; Carlos Castaneda; Howard Zinn; Gandhi; Victor Frankl; Tolstoy; Plato; D.T. Suzuki; John Woolman; Joseph Campbell; Thomas Merton; Brave New World; Screw Tape Letters; The Plague; Tadeuz Borowski; Women of Wisdom; Nawal El Sadaawi; Cry, the Beloved Country; "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"; Things Fall Apart; Lost Christianities; Marcus Borg; The Friendship Factor; Sartre; Maslow; Eliade; The Odyssey; Gilead by Marilynne Robinson!!!; the Cloud of Unknowing; St. John of the Cross

Heroes:

most of the authors listed above, and: MLKII, Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, Jimmy Carter, Socrates, Maha Ghosananda, Thich Nhat Hanh, Desmond Tutu and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Bill and Melinda Gates, Robert Shelton, Andy McKee, Rusty Hilst, Romeo Pacheco Sr., James Woelfel, Paul Zimdars-Swartz, Aagje Ashe

My Blog

collections and identity

I slept 1.5 hours last night. I laid there, dreading that I would soon have to get up, and the most random thought entered my mind: What if that last award application is due today? And sure enough...
Posted by Koala Quality on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:09:00 PST

a modest thanksgiving

So i've got about 100 more pages that I plan on reading tonight, but I thought it worth while to record an event which happened today--a break through, really. It will require me to talk about my his...
Posted by Koala Quality on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:20:00 PST

friendship and time

Just when you start thinking things can't get any better... well, you should know that things can always get better. Even when they're already really, really, really good, there's always room for th...
Posted by Koala Quality on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:21:00 PST

hidden bias tests

I found a website through which you can take Hidden Bias Tests, tests which are intended to reveal any prejudices you might have, some of which you might not know about. I have taken two of ...
Posted by Koala Quality on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:36:00 PST

love. again...

love is an utterly mystifying thing.  having spent so much time catching up with old friends and family over this holiday break, i've lately been contemplating love, its strange ways, and wh...
Posted by Koala Quality on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:22:00 PST

the long lonliness, sans saintliness

I have no great words to share here today. The peace corps cross cultural workbook says that there are three common mistakes when writing a journal. and I make all three! 1) I think that journals n...
Posted by Koala Quality on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:23:00 PST

bloooong

sleepless nights make for good bloooog writing opportunities. here goes nothing.i got to witness a random act of kindness today, and was humbled by the most humble of people.the peacebuilders' meeting...
Posted by Koala Quality on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:42:00 PST

love and Imra'u 'l-Qays (edited)

They will ask "What is love?"  Say, "The abandonment of free will."  He who has not escaped out of free will, no free will has he. --Rumiof all the things learned in my 2+ years at ku, none ...
Posted by Koala Quality on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:34:00 PST

you may not know who i am but i love you.

you may not know who i am but i love you. i pass you three times a week between 10:45 and 11:00 as you head northward towards wherever it is you go. sometimes you look in my direction. othertimes y...
Posted by Koala Quality on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:18:00 PST

Rumi

NIGHT-AND-DAY SPELLSENCOUNTERThe sun in the moon: an amalgam.Their gold and silver melt together.The elusive ones finally meet:The essence and the evolving forms,Good and evil, dead and alive, everyth...
Posted by Koala Quality on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:39:00 PST