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J

I live on both sides of the fence. My grass is always green.

About Me

The air rushed out of the room, through the open windows and the cracks beneath the door, leaving, in its wake, a vacuum. "So tell me about it friend. Just what exactly is it you're looking for?"The mind plays tricks on the memory. Time is skewed to benefit convenience. Events are compressed for greater efficiency or expanded to accomodate a false sense of triumph. This being the case, it's hard to say exactly, but it seems to me that I spent close to fifteen thousand years standing stockstill in that exact same spot, searching for an answer to her question. Photobucket Album

My Interests


I'd like to meet:

There are two kinds of people, no more, I say. Not the good and the bad, for it's well understood that the good are half bad and the bad are half good. Not the happy and sad, for the swift-flying years bring each man his laughter and each man his tears. Not the rich and the poor, for to count a man's wealth you must first know the state of his conscience and health. Not the humble and proud, for in life's busy span he who puts on vain airs is not counted a man. No! The two kinds of people on earth I mean are the people who lift and people who lean. I'd like to meet the lifters...

Music:

ATHLETIC FEATS WORTH HONORABLE MENTIONS

Movies:

goonies, the usual suspects, bull durham, shawshank redemption, fight club, shag, love actually, the sandlot, darjeeling limited, i heart huckabees, oceans anything, indiana anything, and really, let's save ferris...

Television:

I have three televisions in my place. One of them is plugged into the DVD player. The other two are official dust collectors, taking space on the shelf and creating the guise that we are normal americans with regular television needs and wants. (we're not.) I generally prefer other activities to watching the television and have found myself catching more sleep and delicious literature with tv's absence from my life. I DO wish, however, that I could watch a little bit of primary coverage though. I'm dependent on my interweb for satisfaction.

Books:

"I thought I might throw the book away or maybe even burn it, but like a perfectly good outgrown sweater, it seems a shame to destroy it when the world was full of people who might get some use out of it. With this in mind, I carried the book to the grocery store parking lot and tossed it into the bed of a shining new pickup truck. Whistling out of apprehension and nervous relief, I took up my post beside the store's outdoor vending machine, waiting until the truck's owner returned pushing a cart full of groceries. He was a wiry man with fashionable mutton-chop sideburns and a half cast on his arm. As he placed the bags in the back of the truck, his eyes narrowed upon the book. I watched as he picked it up and leafed through the first few pages before raising his head to search the parking lot, combing the area as if he might spot either a surveillance camera or, preferably a vanload of naked swingers pressing their bare breasts against that windows and inviting him to join the fun. He took a cigarette from his pocket and tapped it against the roof of the truck before lighting it. Then he slipped the book into his back pocket and drove away."Most recent recommendation: The Pillars of the Earth Still recommending: East of Eden, Power of One (NOT a self-help book!), Out of Africa, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, A Fine Balance, Life of Pi, Traveling Mercies, and anything Sedaris

Heroes:

What's in a hero? One whom is distinguished by exceptional courage, nobility, and strength; one who fights for a cause; or one who is the best example. For me, the title of "HERO" is not limited to any one, but rather, is a growing list of reasons to do my best, to continue to grow and learn, to give what I can, when I can, as I can... My current list: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, John Muir, Billie Jean King, Sir Edmund Hillary and these chicks in Afghanistan are quite stellar too...

My Blog

Realistic Expectations of Change.

The approach points toward slow growth and maturity. Believe in the tremendous, perhaps even unlimited, power of the mind - but a mind that has been systematically trained, focused, concentrated, a mi...
Posted by J on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:46:00 PST

i really do heart huckabees.

Bernard Jaffe: [to Albert Markovski] When you get the blanket thing, you can relax, because everything you could ever want or be, you already have and are. Bernard Jaffe: The universe is an infinite s...
Posted by J on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:02:00 PST

meditation on the purpose of life.

"As the Dalai Lama sat in the Arizona desert that week, exploring human nature and examining the human mind with the scrutiny of a scientist, one simple truth seemed to shine through and illuminate ev...
Posted by J on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:48:00 PST

Farmer’s Donkey

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the unused well needed t...
Posted by J on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:50:00 PST

word.

DALI LAMA's INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.3. Follow the three R's:Respect for selfRespe...
Posted by J on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:40:00 PST

fish out of water

I was taking an evening stroll on the beach, walking close to the water, close to sunset. There was a warm breeze blowing and there were happy, vacationing couples passing me as I went. Each time the ...
Posted by J on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:24:00 PST

In the Sequence of Falling Things

"We'll figure it out. You can't know everything is going to be perfect before you commit to it. Sometimes you just have to have a little faith. You just jump. You'll be okay." - Elizabeth Robinson...
Posted by J on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:57:00 PST

SGK 3-DAY

We couldn't have asked for better conditions last weekend. The sun was out; the mood was great; the walkers were thirsty and we were there to help. Of the 4,000 plus walkers, I'd say we got to at le...
Posted by J on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:45:00 PST

bolivian cocoa farmers

Darcy is taking South America by storm and she is now in Bolivia. She is living in a small cocoa farming community thick with history, traditions, and culture...while her more informative piece is co...
Posted by J on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:19:00 PST

West of Eden

To the surprise of many, I have generally considered myself a capital punishment advocate. I believe in consequence, the enforcement of those consequences, and principal at hand. Today however, I read...
Posted by J on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:15:00 PST