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Silverfox

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Am happy to see some young'uns giving joy to the planet thru their creations, working to HAVE a planet, being kind, helping others.I'm old, retired prof, work as a psychic, have weird affinity with creative types. Love good books, movies, music, talk.Nature heals. Just get out there and look around. All your answers can be found there, altho we all need to "learn to love the questions themselves"...

My Interests

Dang near everything!

I'd like to meet:

Jesus, the Buddha, Gandhi, Carlos and Debi Santana, Dalai Lama, anyone who has found unique solutions to social issues ( Grameen bank founder & other micro-lenders, person who thought to spray the baby seals w/ red paint, Nadir Khalili, etc.),Georges Roualt, Carl Jung, Anthony Bourdain, Tom Robbins,Louise Nevelson, Ruth Gordon as Maude, Marie Curie, Georgia O' Keeffe, Margaret Sanger, Ruth Reichl, Jane Smiley, Mary Magdalene.Most of all I look forward to meeting my beautiful Boris again...wherever. All dogs go to heaven...we may have to meet elsewhere...

Music:

Favorite song of all time is "I Want to Know What Love Is". Did you know it was originally a spiritual, sung in the cotton fields? And:Santana, Ozomatli, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Stevie Ray Vaughn. Eurhythmics, all the classic dinosaurs (especially Fogerty, Dire Straits, Tom Petty and Allman Bros.) Queen, Iron Maiden. A/K/A, Virgil Cain . Entrain, Afro Celt, Moby, Fall OutBoy. Classical, Spanish classical/flamenco guitar, jazz fusion (hi Aldo!!!). Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Mann. Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Andreas Vollenweider. Musically, I am just a total slut. Everything but C & W and Rap.

Movies:

Michael, Harold and Maude, Dogma, Three Kings, K-Pax Resurrection (Ellen Burstyn version!), American Beauty, Orlando, Somewhere In Time, Stranger Than Fiction, The Philadelphia Experiment, Syriana, O Brother Where Art Thou, Cobb, Highlander, Passion in the Desert, Michael Moore documentaries

Television:

sports? TV is just so sad.

Books:

I will read anything that doesn't move, but gave up self-help books at 60. If I'm not improved enuf by now, the hell with it.

Heroes:

Same as who i would want to meet. And I am proud of my kids, for living life on their own terms.

My Blog

Wisdom from Samuel C

  "It is curious; curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain  
Posted by Silverfox on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:23:00 PST

unlike many politicos, he did not want to be King....

  "Govenrment is not reason; it is not eloquence, it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington
Posted by Silverfox on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:16:00 PST

Wisdom from human pinniped...

  "Miracles happen even as we speak, but we're never gonna survive unless we get a little bit crazy." - Seal  
Posted by Silverfox on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:24:00 PST

So you had to read him in high school; get over it...

  "Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which every man has some." - Charles Dickens   P.S. The book I'm rereading is by singer Jewel'...
Posted by Silverfox on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:55:00 PST

...or some would never show themselves in public again...

  "An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it." - Don Marquis  
Posted by Silverfox on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:23:00 PST

....which explains the late great George Carlin...

  "Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist." - George Carlin  
Posted by Silverfox on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:40:00 PST

I recall hearing this...

  "Drive carefully - it's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker." - anonymous  
Posted by Silverfox on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:41:00 PST

Posthumous wisdom from Supreme Court Justice...

  "Everything I've ever done that was worthwhile, I caught hell for. " - Earl Warren  
Posted by Silverfox on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:14:00 PST

Dig it?

  "The only difference between a rut and a grave is the dimensions." - Ellen Glasgow  
Posted by Silverfox on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:55:00 PST

Nothing endures but change...

  "If nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies." - anonymous  
Posted by Silverfox on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:02:00 PST