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brooke

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth

About Me

just am.The CricketSoda Myspace Editor! ..

My Interests

.. Fair Trade CLIMBING Glacier National ParkBeach life (this is Makalawena on the Big Island - Hawaii)Do something about Darfur...Boulderween 10.28 & 10.29..Southeastern Climbers Coalition ....... Adventure Video .. ....... (my buddies John & Greg run this gig, my climbing buddies Kelly, Thomas, Rob, Chad & Zaab and me at the end are all in the Big Crimpin' video) ...... Horsepens 40 - one of the best crags in the Southeast ...... Wedding Pictures ......Glacier National Parkgetting my hands dirty, getting my feet dirty (which means climbing mostly these days, other just walking around barefoot on my dirty hardwood floors - oh yeah - the grocery store floor in the freezer section is cold), feeling exposed, that endorphin rush after singing your heart out, heavy bass that you feel in your bones, diversity, salty skin and beach hair and swimming at sunset in the emerald Gulf, colorado in summer, georgia in spring and fall (I am so proud to be a Southerner), hiking, camping, cycling, Dakota, being a mom, kissing Dakota's squishy soft baby cheeks, watching Dakota wiggin out to his favorite song (makes my heart swell), making fried chicken and mashed potatoes and corn casserole and beef stew and every other kind of comfort food... and sometimes eating super healthy and drinking green sludge, naps on the couch, snuggling, a good cry, a new cd, campfire smell in my clothes, green things, cushy socks, beach hair, the smell of a man after a long day of hard labor (i ain't jokin'), cooking big meals for lots of hungry people (did I say that already?), whiskey, rum, champagne, hot bread & real butter, dessert (mmmmm pie), wow, I am really talking about food a lot huh, home and family, open windows on a Spring day, telling people about the passionate love of God.

I'd like to meet:

John the Baptist, John the Revelator, Peter (stubborn as a mule), Mary, Stephen, Jason's dad, Marc's dad - just to understand, John Wesley, William Cooper...Take some time to sit and watch Dr. King deliver his infamous speech... one that many have never seen in its entirety. This is precious stuff right here.....OTHERS: John the Baptist, John the Revelator, Peter (stubborn as a mule), Mary, Stephen, Jason's dad, Marc's dad - just to understand, John Wesley, William Cooper...

Music:

right now I'm into: RAY LAMONTAGNE :O) and Coldplay has been spinning a lot lately.here's what I got: Arrested Development, Alice in Chains, Aqualung, Alana Davis, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Alicia Keys, Andy Fitts, Amos Tobin, Aretha Franklin, Annie Lennox, Beth Orton, Bob Marley, Black Eyed Peas (old school), Blue Merle, Ben Harper (& the Innocent Criminals), Beth Orton, Bjork, Bonnie Raitt, Billie Holiday, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Bruce Hornsby, Bebo Norman, Beta Band, Blind Melon, Coldplay, Cat Stevens, Counting Crows, Chemical Brothers, Calexico, Citizen Cope, Carlos Santana, Dave Matthews Band, Death Cab for Cutie, Dub Conscious, David Gray, Depeche Mode, Dead Can Dance, Doors, Dido, DJ Icey, DJ Hyper, DJ Punch, DJ Rob E, Del Castillo, Daniel Lanois, Enya, Ella Fitzgerald, Esthero, Elliott Smith, Elemental Harmonics, Eric Clapton, Fiona Apple, Fugees, Frou Frou, Galactic, G Love & Special Sauce, Grateful Dead, Gorillaz, Gillian Welch, George Winston, Gypsy Kings, Hank Williams, Sr., Iron & Wine, Indigo Girls, Israel & New Breed, Jack Johnson, Jamiroquai, James Taylor, James Blunt, Justin Timberlake, Jurassic 5, John Mayer/John Mayer Trio, Joe Pass, Josh Groban, Kimball Collins, Killers, Kevin Prosch, Lauryn Hill, Led Zeppelin, Loreena McKennitt, Ludacris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Matisyahu, Marvin Gaye, Matt Redman, Moby, Meshell Ndegeocello, [minus.driver], Miles Davis, Norah Jones, North Mississippi All Stars, Olive, Outkast, Orbital, Our Lady Peace, Paula Cole, Paul Oakenfold, Perpetual Groove, Phish, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Police, POD, Prince, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Ray Lamontagne, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Rusted Root, Rob Dougan, Ringside, Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Wonder, Sneaker Pimps, Sting, Sublime, Smashing Pumpkins, Stanley Jordan, Toots and the Maytalls, Tori Amos, Turin Brakes, Tom Petty, 311, U2, VAST (Visual Audio Sensory Theatre), Van Morrison, Verve, Widespread Panic, Youssou D'Nor, Zero 7

Movies:

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Farting preacher 5 version (a) The Nativity Story - just saw it!! You gotta see it!! 5x2 (it's french but so intense), dirty filthy love, The Graduate, Harold and Maude, Garden State, Morvern Callar, Touching the Void, Riding Giants, Endless Summer & Endless Summer II (makes me so jealous), recently watched The New World (beautiful film!)... The Passion of the Christ, Dances with Wolves is probably one of my all time favorites...TEAM AMERICA (durka durka) others I can't think of now.

Television:

anything on PBS... (damn liberals)

Books:

Ishmael: Daniel Quinn; The Alchemist: Paul Coehlo; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Annie Dillard; The Case for Christ: Lee Stroebel; Sacred Romance: John Eldridge; Walden: Thoreau; The Rock Warrior's Way by Arno Ilgner... others I can't mention cause I gots too many friends in the military or government :o).

Heroes:

Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks, Emmett Till's mom, C.S. Lewis... others I can't think of right now.
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My Blog

it's good to be outside

It clears my head and settles me. I don't know why I forget that, but I do. It's part of me; an integral part of achieving sanity and maintaining a good perspective on my own life and how the choices ...
Posted by brooke on Sat, 05 May 2007 07:48:00 PST

about the miscarriage...

I am filled to the brim with a need to express something that words are not suited for. There are no other languages except tears, and maybe music that other people write who have been where I am and ...
Posted by brooke on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:08:00 PST

okay, so, no baby. :(

yesterday we went to the ER at about 3PM to discover that I had miscarried. I went through all the necessary procedures (avoiding getting graphic here) to take care of everything and was released...
Posted by brooke on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:27:00 PST

the cross is my history

Does anyone ever make it through life looking at all their decisions with surety and a real hard core sense of purpose in every single step they've made? Does anyone ever make it through their life l...
Posted by brooke on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:45:00 PST

pregnant

We just found out last night! Looks like sometime in October we'll be having a little baby! Exciting and scary indeed, but always a blessing.
Posted by brooke on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:07:00 PST

addiction by Shel Sylverstein

In the swamplands long ago,Where the weeds and mudglumps grow,A Yipiyuk bit on my toe&Exactly why I do not know.I kicked and cried and hollered "Oh!"The Yipiyuk would not let go.I whispered to him sof...
Posted by brooke on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 06:32:00 PST

2004

I was riding in the car on the way to the office yesterday and was having one of those encapsulated experiences blasting Coldplay and I couldn't help but remember what I was going through at the ...
Posted by brooke on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:20:00 PST

time to break out Rock Warriors Way again...

Ah the many facets of climbing... the way it challenges you mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally. I don't think I've ever participated in any one thing that forces me to examine myself so mu...
Posted by brooke on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:22:00 PST

i cannot leave the subject line blank

after long hours crocheting in the car and weeding through stacks of clothes and christmas tree needles and depressing work email and undone laundry and all that's left to be done, I think I've figure...
Posted by brooke on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:03:00 PST

the nativity story

you have to see it. I cried and cried and cried. SO AWESOME!!  
Posted by brooke on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:00:00 PST