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About Me


my name is christian and we can be friends if you walk home with me, even if you don't make it the whole way, even if you are not the best or most interesting person to talk to, even if you are sad or hurt or sick, even if you are poor and alone or helpless and dying, even if the clouds cover the sun and the rain pours down, even if the air gets cold and the night gets dark. everything in the world could go wrong and we can still be friends. this is how i do unto others as i would have them do unto me.
it hurts when you discover,
one's worse, and one's better:
to suffer,
or cause others to

"Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself, but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society. Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality, but by the higher duty I owe to myself. What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?"
--Eugene V. Debs

My Interests

ART, music, film+photography, literature, poetry, socialism, humanism, sociology+psychology, ecology, environmentalism, animal rights+liberation, social justice, history+philosophy, religion+spirituality, birth, death, tragedy, triumph, love, peace, all the in-betweens...

I'd like to meet:



If I should die before I wake
pray the Lord my soul to take

My Blog

To Boddah

To Boddah: Speaking from the tongue of an experienced simpleton who obviously would rather be an emasculated, infantile complain-ee. This note should be pretty easy to understand. All the warnings f...
Posted by chris ian.cari as on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:19:00 PST

too many

the world is a sad place. be kind to each other. its not that hard.  really. too many children have grown up to not believe in love anymore. like kurt said, if only&because it seems so easy for ...
Posted by chris ian.cari as on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:07:00 PST

The Journey

Mary Oliver One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advicethough the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankl...
Posted by chris ian.cari as on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:17:00 PST

i was walking with a ghost!

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Posted by chris ian.cari as on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:28:00 PST

Little Lamb II

for Rachel, who used to sing to me In february, i traded the sadness of sylvia’s day for you, i gave myself to you on that night, i needed to, i wanted to, i sat there and watched you cry, i ...
Posted by chris ian.cari as on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:28:00 PST

In my dream I was redrum,

kidnapped, they put me in a room, an apartment without windows or doorsno escape. The world assumed I died, they even made me a tombstone and buried my clothes in a box. On the news they said the s...
Posted by chris ian.cari as on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:10:00 PST

Ofelia

for Lisa Rosë   In the shell of a young girl you were a fearless, immortal soul, the rightful queen of Hades, the symbol of justice and compassion. In your mind, the truth love speaks is magic...
Posted by chris ian.cari as on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:12:00 PST

Plato on the fear of death

"Then, Simmias, as the true philosophers are ever studying death, to them, of all men, death is the least terrible. Look at the matter in this way: how inconsistent of them to have been always enemi...
Posted by chris ian.cari as on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:48:00 PST

We are Free Men

(excerpt by Bright Eyes) A costume can be quite comfortable,it can make you feel more beautiful.It can even make you look like someone else.But it’s still you, so there’s nothing you ca...
Posted by chris ian.cari as on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:53:00 PST

Prayer for Religious

Father, you inspire and bring to fulfillment every good intention. Guide your people in the way of salvation and watch over those who have left all things to give themselves entirely to you. By fol...
Posted by chris ian.cari as on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:18:00 PST