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About Me

.. My life is dedicated to helping others, especially through my art talent. Love and Peace to all. ************************************************************ **************************** .. Hi, Welcome. Consideration for all people, all walks of life, is important to me. As an artist, I believe that what we put into print and film (including Myspace) we have the moral obligation to voluntarily make it viewable by all ages. After all, we're creating a world for everyone to live in. -*Silver* ************************************************************ ************************ .. ************************************************************ **************************** "Peace is within, don't seek it without." _Guatama Buddha . ************************************************************ **************************** I was looking at a 1910 vintage photograph of Helen Keller with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. Strangely, the caption below it went into great detail about the feather in her bonnet, her shoes, the placement of her hands, and even the type of chair she was sitting in. Then it dawned on me; it was written for the Blind. At that moment I knew that I was the blind one. I became a Reader for the Blind when I was 17 yr.s old. ************************************************************ *************************** DOSSIER:..... Heritage is Inuit, Powhatan, English, Irish, French, 100% Californian. 30 year student of Metaphysics. Illustrator for The Buddhist Consciousness Enlightenment series 10 yr.s., Roman Catholic studies (currently). Art awards/museum exhibited. I enjoy my life, making friends, growing roses, and on rare occassion taking my motorcycles out for a ride. ************************************************************ *************************** Don't let negative people bring you down. ************************************************************ *************************** The most DANGEROUS things I've done:Train-Hopping over the Siskiyou Mt.s at age 19. Body-Surfing at Laguna Beach, where I lived, when 20' sleeper waves came out-of-no-where... age 22. Riding a train with Spanish soldiers armed w/automatic rifles while back-packing through Spain at age 20. Horseback riding above glacier cliffs in Mineral King (age 11). Water skiing (for the first time) at age 7. Thinking that I could do anything...age 30. ************************************************************ *************************** Favorite memory: riding an elephant at the fair. ************************************************************ **************************** Quotes: H.H. 14th Dalai Lama- "KINDNESS IS MY RELIGION." ************************************************************ ***************************"Pow Wow music feeds my soul!" See my MySpace friends, The Feather River Singers ************************************************************ *************************** .. ..

My Interests

The things money can't buy.******************************************************** ****************************** ************************************************************ ************************* Recommended music video: 1987, Down To Earth...Curiosity Killed the Cat, vocals: Ben Volpeliere Pierrot. "They appeared out of nowhere, as if they were transported from a parallel universe..."~ Michael Sutton, All Music Guide.****************************************************** *********************************

I'd like to meet:

Kindhearts. Visionaries.

Music:

Bands I got to see live in late 1960's: Jim Morrison and The Doors, John Mayall Blues Breakers, Eric Burdon and The Animals, more. 'Big Arthur Lee and Love, Nick Drake, and YardBirds fan. ************************************************************ ****************************I went to a lot of live shows in San Francisco and Berkeley in 1980's. It was a great era in music history. Every Sunday afternoon was 'Sushi Sunday' at the Nite Break in the Haight Ashbury and 4 bands would play for free. Here's some of the concerts I was fortunate enough to attend in the Bay Area: Happy Mondays, Galexy Chambers, Seahags,The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission UK, PIL, Sugar Cubes, The Cure, Siouxie and The Banshees, Love and Rockets, New Order, The God Fathers, Nine Inch Nails, Concrete Blonde, Blondie, Sonic Youth, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Gene Loves Jezebel, Echo and The Bunnymen, Rickie Lee Jones, Tom Waits, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Romones, Garbage, New Model Army, Missile Harmony, Fuzztones, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Grateful Dead, The The, Curve, The Swans, Tears for Fears, Simply Red, David and David, The Cult (all Bay area shows), and many more....'never got to see the Shaman. ********most regreted missed show: Drama Rama at The NightBreak in Haight Ashbury. ************************************************************ **************************** These days: only natural sounds; wind, rain, water, birds, silence. And early (1920's) Blues.

Movies:

"The Color of Paradise"

Television:

Only PBS.

Books:

Art History. Currently reading: Brooke Medicine Eagle "The Last Ghost Dance", "Memory and Identity; Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium " John Paul ll. "The Miracle of Breath; Mastering Fear, Healing Illness, and Experiencing the Divine" Andy Caponigro.

Heroes:

Veterans .. ****************Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Ralph Waldo Emerson.******************* Missionaries of the Poor. ..

My Blog

Teens at risk...help save lives... Know the warning signs!

(scroll down for Crisis Hotline phone numbers)"Suicide is the 3rd Leading Cause of Death of Teenagers; Know the Warning Signs" by *Silver* @ 2007Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem...
Posted by ~<. * Silver * .>~ on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:01:00 PST

Michelangelo and The Art of Seeing Deeply

"Michelangelo and the Art of Seeing Deeply" by *Silver* @2007Alex Grey is the author of The Mission of Art. In the chapter titled "Deeply Seeing" Grey shares with us his profound experience viewing...
Posted by ~<. * Silver * .>~ on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:54:00 PST

Train Hopping

Train Hopping and what to tell your teenagers about it. By *Silver* @2007In 1974 I hopped a freight train for fun and adventure with Eric, who I had met that afternoon. He was my age. We were both mat...
Posted by ~<. * Silver * .>~ on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:14:00 PST

Washington DC: Virginia congresswoman calls for apologies to the Nation of Native Americans

From: "Marley Shebala" navajotimes.comSubject: Fwd: Rep. Jo Ann Davis introduces apology billDate: Monday, February 12, 2007 5:47 PMOrig. Posted: February 12, 2007by: Bobbie Whitehead / Indian Country...
Posted by ~<. * Silver * .>~ on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:48:00 PST

Art lessons reduce juvenile crime

"It costs approximately $40,000 to incarcerate a juvenileoffender for one year. With that money... Parks andRecreation in California could have him or her attend camp for 2weeks, play soccer for 3 mon...
Posted by ~<. * Silver * .>~ on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:46:00 PST

A Shaman is...

"The true shaman is one who holds the golden dream in [his or her] heart...until it comes true on Earth."-Brooke Medicine Eagle _ "The Last Ghost Dance", Ballatine N.Y. 2000
Posted by ~<. * Silver * .>~ on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:04:00 PST

Metaphysics

Online Dictionary defination: metaphysics |..met....fiziks| plural noun [usu. treated as sing. ] the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts su...
Posted by ~<. * Silver * .>~ on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:34:00 PST

Denis Banks...Native American....Sacred Run, audio clip

website (photos) http://www.sacredrun.orghttp://www.sacredrun.org/media/02020 6dennisbanks24.mp3Denis Banks, central figure in the 1970's activist movement for Native People's rights...has been organiz...
Posted by ~<. * Silver * .>~ on Wed, 10 May 2006 09:59:00 PST