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Jen

Cheer up... the worst is yet to come.

About Me

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My Interests

Parenting, Buddhism, Meditation, Bipolar Disorder, Photography, Outdoors, Oxfam International, Global Volunteer Network

I'd like to meet:

Dalai Lama, Lama Surya Das, Louise "Lulu" Brooks, Keith Haring, Audrey Hepburn, Frances Farmer

Music:

Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Debussy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Scissor Sisters, Coldplay, Outkast, Carly Simon, Bread, Abba, Primus, Split Enz, Jessie Baylin, Wildman Larry Fischer, Gary Jules, The Police, The Go Go's, Regina Spektor, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Todd Rundgren, Frank Zappa, Peter Frampton, The Clash, Elvis Costello, INXS, Aerosmith, Nina Simone, Fiona Apple, Metallica, The Ramones, Michael Andrews, Aimee Mann, Jane's Addiction, Blondie, The Pretenders, Cheap Trick, Pink Floyd, Devil Doll, The Rolling Stones, U2, REM...

Movies:

Foul Play, Kill Bill (1&2), Pulp Fiction, Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, Reservoir Dogs, Brokeback Mountain, Rush, Amelie, The Circus, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Professional, 21 Grams, Pandora's Box, Blue Velvet, Slither, The Elephant Man, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Miss Sunshine, Forest Gump, A Love Song for Bobby Long, A Clockwork Orange, Garden State, Mulholland Drive, The Graduate, Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, Barfly, The Constant Gardener, Crash, Schindler's List, Magnolia, The Canary Murder Case, American Beauty, Walk the Line, Slingblade...

Television:

The Office, Intervention, Iconoclasts, Dexter, E! News, Nip/Tuck, Family Guy, Will & Grace, Sundance Channel, IFC, Ladette to Lady

Books:

Awakening the Buddha Within, Lama Surya Das; Awakening to the Sacred, Lama Surya Das; The Art of Happiness, Dalai Lama; Ethics for the New Millenium, Dalai Lama; An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life, Dalai Lama...; The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Robert Thurman; Tibetan Buddhism, Robert Thurman; Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor; Meditation, Eknath Easwaran; Running with Scissors: A Memoir, Augusten Burroughs

Heroes:

Dalai Lama

My Blog

Exhausted...

  Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of wearin...
Posted by JEN on Thu, 03 May 2007 07:11:00 PST

Decision 2007

  After much thought (years of thought), I have decided (I think) to start foster parenting classes once I return to work.  I have weighed the pros and cons until they have become a blur in...
Posted by JEN on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:00:00 PST

Time...

  "Time heals all wounds." Perhaps... But the scars forever remain.  ...
Posted by JEN on Tue, 01 May 2007 10:04:00 PST

We Should Never Look Into The Future...

Depersonalized Sex... The ease of having meaningless sex with someone who is regarded as an object, and the difficulty of having meaningless sex with someone who is seen as a person....
Posted by JEN on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:04:00 PST

Holding on...

  Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.  ...
Posted by JEN on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:39:00 PST

Papa

The M/V T. S. Kunsman on the Paducah floodwall....
Posted by JEN on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:09:00 PST

Duck Poo...

Strange week.  One year ago Monday I entered LHBH = HELL.  Even stranger, I had an appointment with Dr. M. on Monday...just as I did one year ago.  Only this year, there was no suicida...
Posted by JEN on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:32:00 PST

Calendar marked...

      Subject:  Mark your calendars, get ready get set and GO!! Body: At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03...
Posted by JEN on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:45:00 PST

4/16/07

       VT - Collegiate Times...
Posted by JEN on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:34:00 PST

Am I...

Sometimes, I feel like the little girl who loved her kitten too much.  She hugged him so tight, that she squeezed the life from him....
Posted by JEN on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:39:00 PST