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amie

.soaring on eagles wings. running and not getting weary. (thats where i'm at).

About Me

i am deeply driven by creative forces and subterranean needs. I hope I never try to live like anyone else ever again, but Live Life the way that I am made to live, with purpose and passion and relentless dedication. If you see me not living this way, nudge me and pull the wool off of my eyes, cut through my haze with your luminecent light gaze."you belong among the wildflowers you belong in a boat out at sea you belong with your love on your arm you belong somewhere you feel free." -Tom Petty"Be thirsty heart, seek forever without a rest. Let this soundless longing hidden deep inside you be the source of every word you say." ~ Rumi"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him a touch is a blow; a sound is a noise; a misfortune a tragedy; a joy an ecstasy.A friend is a lover and failure is death."Add to this cruelly delicate organism the over -powering necessity to create, create, create, so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creations. By some strange inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating."Layout made by ryanne at CreateBlog.com . ..

My Interests

they vary day by day...every sun rise to sun set is different..i hope never to sink into routine mundaneness....the world is my classroom, the people in it, my books....here's some (old) art and photos i have taken (i mean...photos of photos i have taken...)

I'd like to meet:

People who love whatever they are doing whenever they are doing it, People who live life, instead of just getting by....people whose EYES SMILE PEACE .....*homeless people across America*The Princes who will wow & whisk away these Princesses:

Music:

Playing my Harmonica And dreaming of being a good dulcimerist... THe YeAH yeAH Yeah'S!

mY fAVoRite thing is LiVe MUSiC...acoustic guitar...my little sister's symphony...a gOOd concert where you can sprawl out on the grass...awhile back i heard a boy's choir in Monserrat and i am convinced music never moved me so much...as for music artists, some of my fav's from my pod are: Alison Krauss, all the Ben's-Folds, Harper, Kweller, Pasley...the Be Good Tanyas, the Beatles, Beluah, Blindside, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bond, Bright Eyes, Coldplay, Copeland, Damien Rice, David Crowder, Dead Poetic, Death Cab for Cutie, Donovan, The Eels, Eisley, Ella Fitzgerald, Elbow, enya, fall out boy, fiona apple, fire theft, five for fighting, frou-frou,funeral for a friend, Griffin House, Jack Johnson, Jars of Clay, Josh Bales,Jimi Hendrix, The Killers, Lanterna, Led Zepplin, LaRue, THe Local, Lovedrug, Matisyahoo, Mindy Smith, Nickel Creek, Over the Rhine, Portishead, Postal Service, Rachel Yamagata, RADiohead, Remy Zero, Sarah Harmer, Shinedown, The Shins, Simon and Garfunkle, snow patrol, the streets, SUfijan Stevens, Teitur, Underoath, and Ziggy Marley. . .

Movies:

Harmonica beat box



Someday soon i will be this good... anyone want to teach me to beat box? good cinematography, artsy films, foriegn films... i enjoy a WELL DONE flick... i get really immersed in the movie if i actually take the time to watch it...i find so much symbolism and meaning hidden in the context of movies....i think a GREAT film is one that can (in the span of 2 hours or so) make you laugh and cry...(or at least want to)....

Television:

i'm not going to lie to myself anymore and say that i am above tv. Sometimes you do just want to sit down and zone. i love the show "The AMAZING RACE" If anyone gets inspired to shoot a video and audition with me- LET ME KNOW!

Books:

i LOVE BOOKS!! I want to write one... Some favorite authors are: Emerson, Salinger, Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, C.s. Lewis, Don Miller, Anne Lamot, Thoreau, Kent Nerburn, Sabrina Ward Harrison, Sark, Walt Whitman, Jack London, Thomas Merton, Ernest Hemingway, Goethe, and Pascal....I have recently become addicted to poetry too...I dream of living in a bookstore (or just a house full of books)....i just discovered THomas CARLYLE's "Sartor Resartus"...it's absolutley brilliant!...

Heroes:

i think there are so many OBVIOUS great men and women (Jesus, Gandi, M. Theresa, my Mom & DAd) that have made phenomenal contributions to the world that i could list here, but one person who has personally impacted me the most, is Natalee Claire Drissell. . .she has taught me more about joy and abundant life than any other friend, mentor or teacher i have ever had, and she was all of these...may she RIP by dancing the Lila Rasa on gold streets

My Blog

On Sailing

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."  -Seneca, Roman statesman, dramatist and Stoic philosopher (4 B.C.-65 A.D.) Unfavorable Summer winds have swept me ...
Posted by amie on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:28:00 PST

Broke-down Palace

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step." -Lao Tzu        I have recently begun to re-discover that true identity is found in giving up your self. By ...
Posted by amie on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:39:00 PST

un-covered jADed eyes

my mind. struck. . .by the light of compassion in the night, awoke to the fright-the plight, the sight, of the sick. Of the one my heart had rejected-antibiotically rejected. caught in a web of my own...
Posted by amie on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:32:00 PST