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*~*Flora*~*

"You can not find peace by avoiding life" Virginia Woolf

About Me

I LOVE: Family, Friends, Italian food, Indian food, baking, laughing, Coversations with mom in fluent italian, traveling, the ocean, sunsets and sunrises, music, making someone laugh and smile, curling up with a book, my ipod, Rain, Thunderstorms, how it smells after it rains, cats, kissing,Strong independent women who go against the grain, eyes, pink, black, the city in spring and summer, the Fall, shopping, NY Yankees, NY Rangers, NY Jets, movies, Audrey Hepburn, peace, God, Morning Glories, sleeping in, children's laughter, church bells, dancing, lip gloss, chocolate especially dark, dark nail polish, flip flops, ballet flats, sunglasses, clouds, hugs, candles, moonlight path, j'adore perfume, singing in the shower, neck massages, my name, Silver Lake Park, listening to my brother practice his guitar, meeting people, doves, St. Lucy, Mother Mary, Monet, Toulouse lautrec, Manet, Seurat, Vangoh, La Boheme, La Traviata, Impressionism, Realism, Baroque, Renaissance, Cubism, Pointilism, Basquiat, my heart will always be in Rome, Lenola, Roscigno, Capri, Monica Bellucci, La Pieta, shiny things, Christmas, snow fall, snow angels, stars and moon, black and white movies, black and white photography, bad horror movies, trying new things, long conversations, truth, laughing with my girlfriends, mercy, compassion,my mother's madonna medallion, holding someone's hand, being a short hair brunette...
I HATE: Ignorance,war, not taking care of eachother, insects, spiders, shallowness, people who aren't real, lies,ann coulter's politics, weakness, major hypocrasy, not minding one's own business, hate, prejudice, weak men, people who judge others, Fox news, Red Sox,automated telesystems, hunger, rodents, did i say weak men?...Which Fashion Icon are you?
You are Audrey Hepburn
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My Interests

Movies, Art, shopping, music, friends, Yankees, Rangers, Jets

I'd like to meet:

The person who I would have liked to meet the most is my grandmother who I was named after.

Music:

I love such a variety of music. No Doubt, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Dream Theater, John Mayer, Beatles, Journey, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, REM, Nirvana, Rolling Stones, Van Halen, Incubus, Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Queen, Tears for Fears, Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jamiroquai, Michael Jackson, Prince, Huey Lewis and the News, Seal, Queen of the Stone Age, Cindy Lauper, Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow, Nine Inch Nails, The Police, Beastie Boys, KT Tunstall, Rush, Joan Jett, En Vogue, Elton John, Wheezer, Bob Marley, AC/DC, Billy Joel, James Taylor, Tom Petty, Madonna, Pat Benetar, Blue October, Shiny Toy Guns, OSI, Liquid Tension Experiment, Genesis, Jane's Addiction, Alice in Chains, Herbie Hancock, George Clinton...And so many more....

Movies:

I like most movies but my favorites are any Audrey Hepburn movie Breakfast at Tiffany's is my favorite. Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Psycho, Virtago, Spellbound, It's a Wonderful life, Shawshank Redemption, Sabrina, Roman Holiday, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful, Il Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, La Strada, The Bicycle Thieves, Gone With the Wind, Dick Tracy, Back to the Future, Love Actually, ET, The Godfather, El Cid, The King of Kings, Forrest Gump, Willow, La Vie en Rose, Love is a Many Splendid Thing, Brother Sun Sister Moon, Dracula, The Prestige, Little Women, Newsies, The Manchurian Candidate (Original), Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Pirates of the Carribean, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and The Beast, The Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo, Fiddler on the Roof, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? Batman, Superman, Gangs of New York, The Departed, A Street Car Named Desire, Charade, Singing In the Rain, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Excalibur, The Sting, Out of Africa, The Way We Were, Field of Dreams, Bonnie and Clyde, The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen), The Great Escape, The Deer Hunter, Sophie's Choice, The Bridges of Madison County, It Happened in Naples, Divorce Italian Style, The Song of St. Bernadette, Nun Story, Malena, The Natural, Legends of the Fall, Inventing the Abbots, Shop Girl, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pan's Labyrinth, Belle Epoque, Alfie, Closer, The Notebook, Romeo and Juliet, The Sound of Music, The Hours, The Others, A River Runs Throught It, The Truman Show, Mary Poppins, All 3 Indiana Jones but especially The Last Crusade.... These are just a few of my favorites.....

Television:

I love Sex and the City I can watch them over and over again. Weeds, Seinfeld, Sopranos, Big Love, Rome, Californication, Entourage, House, the Office.

Books:

I absolutely love to read and will read just about anything that catches my eye. But love the classics, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, Sense and Sensability, Wuthering Heights, Les Miserables, Count of Monte Cristo, A Tale of Two Cities, Far From the Maddening Crowd, Orlando, Mrs. Dalloway, Madame Bovary, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, Little Women ... Also love non-fiction

Heroes:

Definitely both my parents they have made a lot of sacrifices for me and my two brothers. My grandfather who faught in World War II. And my grandmother who is one of the strongest women I know.

My Blog

Buy American. I Am by Warren Buffett

Buy American. I Am. THE financial world is a mess, both in theUnited States and abroad. Its problems, moreover, have been leaking into the general economy, and the leaks are now turning into a gusher....
Posted by *~*Flora*~* on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:50:00 PST

Hillary Clinton’s Address to the Fourth UN World Conference on Women, Beijing China

This is truly a celebration--a celebration on the contributions women make in every aspect of life: in the home, on the job, in their communities, as mothers, wives sisters, daughters, learners, worke...
Posted by *~*Flora*~* on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:00:00 PST

I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

"I Am Not Yours"    I am not yours, not lost in you,Not lost, although I long to beLost as a candle lit at noon,Lost as a snowflake in the sea.You love me, and I find...
Posted by *~*Flora*~* on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:36:00 PST

The False Friends by Dorthy Parker

The False Friends    They laid their hands upon my head,They stroked my cheek and brow;And time could heal a hurt, they said,And time could dim a vow.And they were pitiful an...
Posted by *~*Flora*~* on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:48:00 PST

not a poem but my favorite Italian song Mi Mancherai from il Postino

Mi Mancherai   Mi mancherai si te ne vai Mi manchera la tua serenita Le tue parole come canzoni al vento E l'amore che ora porti via   Mi mancherai se te ne vai Ora per sempre non so come vi...
Posted by *~*Flora*~* on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:51:00 PST

Poem 5: Mirror by Sylvia Plath

Mirror By: Sylvia Plath   I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful, The eye...
Posted by *~*Flora*~* on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:37:00 PST

Poem 4: Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere By: Alfred Lord Tennyson   Like souls that balance joy and pain, With tears and smiles from heaven again The maiden Spring upon the plain Came in a sun-lit fall ...
Posted by *~*Flora*~* on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:29:00 PST

Poem 3 One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

One Art    The art of losing isn't hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster,Lose something every day. Accept the fl...
Posted by *~*Flora*~* on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:48:00 PST

Poem .2 Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds

Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other'...
Posted by *~*Flora*~* on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:11:00 PST

Poem 1... Every few days Im going to post a poem feel free comment on the poem in the blog :0)

i carry your heart with me  by ee cummings  i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your...
Posted by *~*Flora*~* on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:04:00 PST