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Charlie

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About Me

cross-wordin', dirt-lovin', Obama-supportin', soap-boxin'dreamer, that's me.

My Interests

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all that I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel what I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. -Lord Byron

I'd like to meet:

enlightened philanderers & poets

Music:

music with heart! Live is best.

Movies:

wonder boys, spring forward, o pioneers,chocolat, all about my mother, what the bleep do we know,the three amigos, ghandi, the opposite of sex, to kill a mockingbird, bull duram, sweet home, pecker, la belle epoch, arsenic & old lace (yes, Cary Grant), joy luck club... that's all I can think of at the moment

Television:

off

Books:

READ THIS BOOK: Omnivore's Dilemma! Read this one next: Cradle to Cradle!

Heroes:

People who transform adversity into creativity and strength. In particular,Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Thoreau,Chris Hedges, Caroline Casey,Dumbledore (first-third books only, after which his character changed from pacifist to vindicator),Paul Wellstone, Tom Bombadill, Gandalf, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cynthia McKinney (sp?), women in general, and lots and lots of those unnamed folks that make this world safer, kinder and more authentic everyday.