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I Want to Know
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring in your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fix it. It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's desire.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes, without cautioning us to be careful or realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life for the presence of the Great Spirit.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the moon, "YES!"
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what is needed for the children.
It doesn't interest me who you are, or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments ...
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Native American Elder
The ONE!!
The one that makes my heart skip a beat when I think of her.
The one that I can not only live with, but the one I cant live with out.
The one that Gets me, No explanations, Not trying to change me but accepts me as I
am and actually enjoys my uniqueness.
The one who is out there looking for me..
I listen to what ever strikes my fancy at the moment. From some 20’s stuff to big band to The Residence. I do find myself gravitating toward classic rock and obscure songs by popular groups. Why limit yourself to just one thing? If ya like it, listen to it!..
Top 3 movie swordfights:
3. Fight between Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin in Princess Bride (1987). “Oh, there’s something I ought to tell you…I’m not left-handed either.†This was in my No.2 spot until trumped by..
2. Fight in the forge, Johnny Depp vs. Orlando Bloom, Pirates of the Carribean (2003). Setting aside the remarkable talent of the principals, it’s got acrobatics, hot poker combat, a comedic donkey - what’s not to like. Besides, they’re going at it hammer and tongs!
1. Final fight sequence of Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk (1940). Starting off with Flynn taking on 2 nameless guards, then 4, oh - he’s cut the hand off one, down to 3! It’s got all the classic marks of the period - rapid action, crisp, looming shadows dominating the field of vision, Flynn’s signature furniture throwing, action ranging from room to room, lacking only the spiral staircase (used in Robin Hood 2 years earlier). Ditching nameless guards he comes to the point against Henry Daniell’s traitorous Lord Wolfingham. Seriously, it looks like they are really trying to kill each other. I love it.
Honorable Mention for Liam Neeson vs Tim Roth in Rob Roy (1995) for rare and interesting pairing of different sword types with vastly disparate fighting styles in a duel, and because Roth is the scariest fop ever.
Hedwid and the Angry Inch...
A classic but not for close minded
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Adams, Douglas Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
LeGuin, Ursula The Earthsea Trilogy: Wizard of Earthsea, Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore. I wish I could live in those stories....
Dr.Richard P. Feynman - 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' (Adventures of a Curious Character), What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Further Adventures of a Curious Character). Great books about a great man!!
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the: Sorcerers Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Half-Blood Prince.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
Piers Anthonys stuff, especially the Incarnations of Immortality series (starts with On a Pale Horse). Xanth is entertaining for younger kids but I would guess they might start to grow out of it before they finished reading all 20 or 30 hes got to have written by now. Apprentice Adept series also is quite good.
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Richard P. Feynman
Scientist, teacher, raconteur, and musician. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, expanded the understanding of quantum electrodynamics, translated Mayan hieroglyphics, and cut to the heart of the Challenger disaster. But beyond all of that, Richard Feynman was a unique and multi-faceted individual. He remains one of the most celebrated and revered scientists of modern times.
Frank Zappa
To some, Zappa remains an experimenter, a "fringe artist," or worse (as recently dismissed by a work friend as "60's drug music.") Zappa's mentor, the classical composer, Edgar Varese, summed it up when he disapproved of all the "isms," and called himself "One-all alone." Zappa certainly was that -- an individual.