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About Me

I love drawing, reading, taking long walks, dreaming and spending time with good friends. I currently live in The White Room with Marcos .

And yes, I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 !

My Interests

~my art

~my livejournal

art: ~my posse

religion: ~my thoughts...

issues:
~goodwill
~benedict xvi: human person/heart of peace
~rerum novarum
~buffalo commons
~the land institue
~curitiba
~curitiba: mckibben
~wildlife corridors
~wildlife crossings
~ted talks

other stuff I like: beaches, beach canals , brasil, canoeing, curitiba, india, parks, swimming, urban planning

the people:
jonvon
tom
krispy
plastic pumpkins
daniel tammet

I'd like to meet:

I'd love to meet you if we share common interests, especially if you are from the Tampa Bay Area.

Music:

I like these bands or artists.

Movies:

Here are some of my faves.

Television:

Little House On The Prairie , The Waltons , My So Called Life , Six Feet Under

Books:

Christopher Alexander , Sherman Alexie , Reinaldo Arenas , Ann Ball , Rod Bennett , Wendell Berry , Sven Birkerts, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Italo Calvino, G.K. Chesterton, Vine Deloria Jr., Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Umberto Eco , Paul Elie, Shusaku Endo, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (only one book, INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM), Abraham Joshua Heschel , Washington Irving, Hari Kunzru , Winona LaDuke , Steven Lawhead, Madeleine L'Engle, C.S. Lewis, Jacques Maritain , Bill McKibben , Thomas Merton, Walter Miller, H.H. Munro a.k.a. Saki , John Henry Cardinal Newman , Flannery O'Connor , Mervyn Peake , Joseph Pearce , Walker Percy , Josef Pieper , Anantanand Rambachan , Salman Rushdie , Dorothy Sayers , Vladimir Soloviev , Teresa of Avila, J.R.R. Tolkien (SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR and FATHER CHRISTMAS LETTERS), Tulsidas , Evelyn Waugh , Charles Williams (his All Hallows' Eve is a masterpiece), Thomas Wolfe

Heroes:

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn , Temple Grandin , Tiny Tim , G.K. Chesterton , Wendell Berry , Johnny Appleseed , Dorothy Day , Avalokiteshvara , Edith Stein , Jaime Lerner , The White Rose

My Blog

recent doings...

crossposted from the lj...This is what I've been doing lately:~hung w the fam~made a collage for a dear friend and her familia.~eaten Thai at least three times this week.~hung out in my garden in the ...
Posted by giveawayboy on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:39:00 PST

Today in St. Pete...

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Posted by giveawayboy on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:27:00 PST

tammet for public libraries

Daniel Tammet likes libraries. "Perhaps most importantly of all, public libraries in every high street - rich and poor, modern or not, urban and rural - remind us of the fact that learning is for ever...
Posted by giveawayboy on Mon, 28 May 2007 10:37:00 PST

thought

my friends, you who are the bright ones, you who are the dreamers, come forth, realize yourselves and dance out the back half of your lives, you are hovering over flatlands or hiking up through uncut ...
Posted by giveawayboy on Sun, 27 May 2007 10:15:00 PST

note to self

This is mainly for my own interest at this time. These are the guys I'm looking at:Obama (yes, I know he's a media darling, but that's not why I like him), Kucinich (though the interest waned a bit) a...
Posted by giveawayboy on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:59:00 PST

check out the parasites on youtube

This was fascinating. I don't know if this is true or real or not, but I really liked it.
Posted by giveawayboy on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:27:00 PST

latest from around the environs...

The sky is blue again for the most part.Here are some hibisicus at church.And my basil is growing.And, I forget the name of this, though I do know it and talk about it all the time....
Posted by giveawayboy on Wed, 16 May 2007 10:45:00 PST

relaxing day...

Hung with Rik yesterday. It was good....
Posted by giveawayboy on Sun, 13 May 2007 10:36:00 PST

I love this!

Posted by giveawayboy on Fri, 11 May 2007 08:41:00 PST

Christine Bakke

Christine Bakke was recently featured in Glamour magazine and on Good Morning America. She also blogs. I have known her a few years now. I still need to figure out a way to go see her. Love ya Christi...
Posted by giveawayboy on Mon, 07 May 2007 09:18:00 PST