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About Me

Ohhhh....Enough about me. What do YOU think about me???
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My Interests

Cerebral Sensuality, Music, Friends & Family, Poetry, Sailing, Trail Running, Real Estate, Classical Flute, NPR, Starbucks Breakfast Blend, Psychology, INFP type, Cooking, Dreaming. Oh, and relish. Relish is so underrated. .. width="425" height="350" ..

I'd like to meet:

People who look deeper than the surface, people who learn from the journey, people who are moved by art, people who get out of their comfort zones...and especially those who get me out of mine.

Music:

Over the Rhine, Sara Gazarek, Katie Melua, Jane Siberry, Crow Marley, Edison Gem, Julia Fordham, Chuck Pyle, Ani Difranco, Beth Orton, Abra Moore, Cocteau Twins, Chicane, Portishead, Mazzy Star, Concrete Blonde, Cortney Tidwell, The Wood Brothers, Leoncio Lara-Bon, Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido, The Sundays, Shelleyan Orphan, Everything but the Girl, Supreme Beings of Leisure, SiSe, Dido, Vanessa Daou, Eurythmics, Blondie, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, David Bowie, The Cars, Erasure, Caroline Levell, Police, Sting, Lenny Kravitz, Eagles, The Story, Jonatha Brooke, Jennifer Kimball, Barbara Kessler, Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams, Susan Tedeschi, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kim Taylor, October Project, Melissa Etheridge, William Orbit, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Peter Gabriel, Little River Band, Serge Gainsbourg, Vanessa Paradis, Rykarda Parasol, Lenny Kravitz, Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Housemartins, The Smiths, Luna, Adam Ant, Steely Dan, ELO, Dusty Trails, Luscious Jackson, Erasure, Cibo Matto, Blue Nile, Me'Shell Ndege'Ocelo, Bjork, Dead Can Dance, Berlin, Shona Laing, Sinead O'Connor, Liza (the lush) Minelli, Eartha Kitt, Chris Botti, Diana Krall, Joyce Cooling, Holly Cole, Patti Austin, Rick Braun, Boney James, Chet Baker, Jamie Cullum, Maxwell, Wayman Tisdale, Gerald Albright, Bob James, Astrud Gilberto, Louis Prima, Buena Vista Social Club, Sade, Eva Cassidy, Natalie Cole, Michael McDonald, Simply Red, Boz Scaggs, George Benson, , Michael Franks, Lou Rawls, Luther Vandross, Jane Monheit, Willie & Lobo, BB King, Al Green, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, Reversing Hour, Big Fish Ensemble, 3 lb Thrill, Natalie Riccio, King Johnson, Ledisi, 22 Brides, Sonia Tetlow, AJ Croce, Norah Jones, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Trish Murphy, kd lang, Joan Baez, Talking Heads/David Byrne, Joe Jackson, The Clash, The Cure, Violent Femmes, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel

Movies:

Running with Scissors (AMAZING!), 21 Grams, Henry & June, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Royal Tenenbaums, American Beauty, Carrington, Hedda, Impromptu, Annie Hall, Eyes Wide Shut, Napolean Dynamite, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Jerk....

Television:

UPDATE!! I'm going without TV for a while, just to see how much LIFE I've been missing.

Books:

Jeanette Winterson, Mary Oliver, Augusten Burroughs, Marya Hornbacher, Anais Nin, Shakespeare, Nicole Brossard, Brame/Brame, Jung....

Heroes:

My Dad for his wisdom; my Mom for surviving (with humor); Christopher Guest (for making all the movies I wish I could have made); Joanna Zjawinska (for painting my secrets) and Anais Nin (for writing about them); Mary Oliver (for seeing Truth and helping others see it, too); and all the people who live honestly, creatively, and are generous with their love.

My Blog

Happiness

What a profound text. Hope you enjoy, also. ~gp Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt It is only immature people who believe, "I am separate; t...
Posted by Etcetera Whatever on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:42:00 PST

No Longer Exists

The nature of MySpace can be so incredibly cruel. I have just found out that my online friend Polly Williams committed suicide on Friday. Rushed with sadness, short of breath, I searched f...
Posted by Etcetera Whatever on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:24:00 PST

Brakes

A friend of mine, who is herself half-Chinese, half-Philippina, told me recently that her high school driving instructor (who was Chinese) would exclaim to her in hairy driving situations, ...
Posted by Etcetera Whatever on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:12:00 PST

Hey, (no), Paula

I just caught a few minutes of a trainwreck on TV that I simply HAD to watch. I believe the show is called "Cooking with Paula." Some gray-haired Southerner who sticks her fingers in...
Posted by Etcetera Whatever on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:45:00 PST

Who knew?

Bambie has apparently been adopted by a clan of wild turkeys. I saw this scene on my run today and almost fell down. The deer is in the background. ...
Posted by Etcetera Whatever on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:10:00 PST

The Secret

Right on time, I was introduced in work training today to the film that is causing quite a stir in the motivational and business world. "The Secret" is something along the lines of "What th...
Posted by Etcetera Whatever on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:53:00 PST

Free Hugs

This is amazing. I had to post it as a blog. Here is a link to an article on this: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/28/1159337257843.html Or, here is a brief synopsis I receive...
Posted by Etcetera Whatever on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:34:00 PST

Loss and Hope: Remembering

May this day be a day for all of us to remember the day that brought us together through both great loss and great hope. May I live this day with a mindfulness worthy of those who lost their liv...
Posted by Etcetera Whatever on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:22:00 PST

When Death Comes

~by Mary Oliver When death comeslike the hungry bear in autumnwhen death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;when death comeslike the measle ...
Posted by Etcetera Whatever on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:14:00 PST

Sweetest Decline

She weaves secrets in her hairThe whispers are not hers to shareShe's deep as a wellShe's deep as a wellAnother day wastes awayAnd my heart sinks with the sunA new day's dawningAnd a new day has not y...
Posted by Etcetera Whatever on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:27:00 PST