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Erin

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About Me

In most of my childhood photographs I look (kind of maniacally) ecstatic.

I truly, madly, deeply love learning about basically anything for the sake of learning.

In an attempt to appreciate how very, very fortunate I am, I'm trying to notice the wonder and whimsy around me as much as possible.

The most "at home" I've ever felt was in Dublin, Ireland.

I usually can relate to children, elderly people, and animals more than I can to average folk. Us average folk can be pretty short-sighted sometimes.

My Interests

experiencing the rawness of living
slowing down
dancing like a fool
connecting with the universal energies
rooftops
traveling on planes, trains and automobiles - I love journeys
fresh fruit & herbs
Parks
Euclidean geometry
being spontaneous at the behest of those more spontaneous than myself
a good cup of fair trade coffee or hot tea
camping, rafting, hiking
Learning from children and elderly peeps
CLUE and jigsaw puzzles
quantum philosophy
great danes and other animals
sudoku and crosswords and logic puzzles
watching
witty banter mixed with totally crude slander to keep it spicy
cooking
grassroots political activism
reading old books while lying belly-up in the grass
blowing bubbles
touching
democratic socialism
oh, and fair trade dark chocolate
can't forget the bloodless chocolate.

I'd like to meet:

Mortimer Adler. Gloria Steinem. Euclid. My grandparents when they were dating. Ghandi. Bill W. Coretta Scott King. Thich Nhat Hanh. Jesus. Epictetus. George Harrison. Zach de la Rocha. Shel Silverstein. Buddha. Luke & Owen Wilson. Marcus Aurelius. Albert Einstein. My parents when they were dating. Victor Frankl. Shakespeare. Myself as a five-year-old. Oprah... I would love to have lunch with that woman.

Music:

R.E.M., Counting Crows, The Beatles, Outkast, Pink Floyd, Neutral Milk Hotel, Beck, Simon and Garfunkel, Regina Spektor, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band, Weezer, India Arie, Joan Armatrading, Simon & Garfunkel, Built to Spill, Herbie Hancock, Rage Against the Machine, Ani Difranco, Outkast, Mark Knopfler, Tori Amos, Against Me!, Hole, etc. Classical. And I wear ear plugs when I go to concerts...

Movies:

favorites: Bottle Rocket, V for Vendetta, The Breakfast Club, Life is Beautiful, The Usual Suspects, The Watcher in the Woods.

Television:

Oprah, The Daily Show, Law and Order... I watched an insane amount of television as an adolescent and I'm making up for lost time.

Books:

staples:
I Know This Much is True
Epictetus' Discourses
Reviving Ophelia
The View from Saturday
Plato's Dialogues
Harry Potter
Thich Nhat Hanh
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
many, many more.


...and which lesser Harry Potter character are you?

Heroes:

Grandparents. Seatbelt wearers. Idealists who act out of Love not Fear.

My Blog

entitlement

It is all kind of yellowwhen we see it through the lensbut more jaundicethan sunshine more pusthan goldhe's never been goodat prettyhe never held things closely(clutched very tightly)and he t...
Posted by Erin on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:38:00 PST

Syllabic Paralysis

She left no notes, no post-its on drawers,but had she, one may have read:"When I am deadthe A/R file is behindthe 02’ Vendor folders"that would have beenan appropriate factto leave her job decen...
Posted by Erin on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:38:00 PST

crossed off the list

crossed off the listSeething, storming in from distant heavens,he may returnhe may return snatching atrophiedlimbs from gilded crosses,he could settle in, biding time to heal his woundshe may turn all...
Posted by Erin on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:27:00 PST

even if shes sleepin with my man...

This is wonderful.  Barack has wonderful things in store for us.  This speech touched my heart. Even if she's sleepin' with my man. http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/wfomospeech Mi...
Posted by Erin on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:03:00 PST

soluble

I keep writing these little mini things.  I read them a week later and think "Yeah?  And then what?"  That's where I am today.solubleIn my dream it was an oceanthe blue slapping metippe...
Posted by Erin on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:23:00 PST

Fiat:

"Fiat: if this car were a lady, it would get its bottom pinched"(If this woman were a car she'd run you down)By the end of the nightas lights were tiredshe danced like a momentstuck between clock notc...
Posted by Erin on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:12:00 PST

blessed are the meek

I throw thingsand I want them to go farI broke a dead limbfrom a sick treeI chucked itdown a mountainsideWanting so much to heara great clamor from the trailheadto start a fight between bobcatsto down...
Posted by Erin on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:43:00 PST

seasons

Santa Fe, I never wrote your poemor poemsmaybe more than onebut others always didalways wore bootsalways checked for spidersCowgirls waxing poetic over stained windowsVested mendancing in the Plazaand...
Posted by Erin on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:44:00 PST

Musings

    I heard recently from someone whom I respect very much that it is prudent to try to enjoy the problems that you have today, because next year you will have different problems and...
Posted by Erin on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:28:00 PST

all our pieces

I am his fiery hairdown to my coreMy fingernails are hardwith his growing teethHe lends his smileI share my heartbeat We are deep inside each otherWe are all so deep insidethis and we cannotseea zippe...
Posted by Erin on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:09:00 PST