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leopoldo

CHICAGO OR BUST!

About Me

For those of you I haven't had the pleasure to meet you personally - I am just another man whose face gets lost in the crowd... regular guy here who still believes there is peace in goodness in this hectic, fast-paced world. I may be sarcastic, absent-minded, moode at times - but that is over-shadowed by my desire to find and do good things for those I care about - I am friendly, mellow, artistic. I am an idealist, yet I am aware of reality and try to be as practical/realistic as I can. I am a great listener, but do have truoble expressing my emotions at times. I enjoy cultural diversity - enjoy travelling when I can... I like foreign films, reading, world music, nature, art, history. exotic foods (as long as they are not alive).

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

At this moment, I am looking to meet friends - people that have a decent set of values, who care about the world around, and who are open to learn, to share. Arrogance, greed, and artificial ways are not ok with me. I like people that can teach me something about life; people who are open to be friends - the kind that can last a lifetime. Meet me half way, but in cases where I must, I'll travel the extra destance for you.

Music:

too much to list - not a music expert, but enjoy variety, from classica, to folk, to modern... Depends on my mood, my emotional state.

Movies:

Y Tu Mama Tambien, Talk to Her, All About My Mother, Shawshank Redemption, Malena, Cinema Paradiso, Silence of the Lamb, Simon Birch, Angela's Ashes, The Mission, My Left Foot, Requiem for a Dream, Billy Eliot, Santa Sangre, Motorcycle Diaries, Finding Nemo, Spirited Away, A River Runs Throught It, Color Purple, Dead Poet Society, Patch Adams, Waking LIfe, Dancer in the Dark, Frida, the Magdalene Sisters, Sexo y Lucia, Amores Perros, Como Agua Para Chocolate, City of God, Central Station, Sexo Pudor y Lagrimas, Il Postino, Finding Neverland... Lion King.

Television:

History Channel; Discovery Channel; Animal Channel

Books:

Diverse: The Alchemist, Los Cuatro Acuerdos, Brothers Karamazoo, Siddharta, Le Petit Prince... Anthony di Mello, Maupassant, Victor Hugo, Neruda, Octavio Paz, Balzac... historical, anthropology, psychology, Dan Brown... more recently: The Third Chimpanzee, Running wiht Scissors, Life of Pie...

Heroes:

don't have any - but there are lots of people I admire, people that I belive have made this world better, and have shown me a little more on how to live my life.

My Blog

The Cost of Loving Has Gone Up

How much can a heart endure? In searching, in hoping, in waiting?..: & when it finds itself in so much darkness, and uncertainty?  How can a heart keep beating? How can what is so plain mainta...
Posted by leopoldo on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:42:00 PST

Be Wise When You Love

Be wise when you love. ...meaning, love life - love the world and the many beautiful things it has for you... but your heart - don't give it away just so easily... Be wise when you love. ... meaning ...
Posted by leopoldo on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:04:00 PST

amor

amor amar, amo, amas, ama, amamos, amais, aman, amare, amaras, amara, amaremos, amarais, amaran, ame, amaste, amo, amamos, amaiste, amaron,  amaria, amarias, amaria, amariamos, amariais, amarian....
Posted by leopoldo on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:42:00 PST

the gift of life

This past couple of months several of my close friends have lost loved ones, just as we are entering this X-mas season (for those of us who celebrate it); and it makes me think how this time of the ye...
Posted by leopoldo on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:15:00 PST

the game

Sometimes we win... even if we don't play the game. For whatever reason, life will prize us - wow, what a feeling, winning without playing - I guess I can see this as grace, as gift, as miracle... I'v...
Posted by leopoldo on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:49:00 PST

hitting walls

Life is so strange... we can spend so much time planing it, our present, our future; we live and love dreaming about how things can be, investing so much energy in Life... hoping - but --- nothin...
Posted by leopoldo on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:37:00 PST

just thinking

Why must a soul hunger?..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> wisdom present in its pangs. Earthly life languishing a wish to give new worth and value to this life t...
Posted by leopoldo on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:11:00 PST

letter to my abuela

Mama Chelo: Hace tiempo que no la veo, ni la siento... y me pregunto si aun tiene fe en mi - cuando le hablo, cuando le cuento mis cosas; cree usted en mi?? me gustaria saber que esta aqui, que forma ...
Posted by leopoldo on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:49:00 PST

I wish I were a bird

The Canary's Song Leo Castillo 03-09-07..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   The rays of time have now matured my plumage into brilliant hues of beauty, and...
Posted by leopoldo on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:19:00 PST

in the eyes of a child

of games and plastic swans..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />     You took a liquid frame and submerged it in the bottom of a boxed-in sea of games, de...
Posted by leopoldo on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:24:00 PST