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Fully Alive!!!

SP(RED) the word!

About Me

SERIAL ECOPRENEUR. IN CHARGE OF CREATIVE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT @ BOXEDGREENS.COM CHEF BY TRADE. TRAVELER & WEB DEVELOPER BY CHOICE. ECO-CONSCIOUS TREEHUGGER. WORLD PEACE ADVOCATE!
People who fulfill their dreams don’t get bogged down by the big picture. They just take it one base camp at a time.
Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity … no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. - Stienbeck (Travels with Charlie)

My Interests

Food, Travel, Music, Art, Design, Sociology, Life, Herbalism & Holistic Health, Ecology, Psychology, Environmentalism.

I'd like to meet:

Chill people.

Music:

Underground Hip Hop, Metal, about 7 country songs, 80's music sucks, and Elvis is over-rated.

Movies:

Boondock Saints. An Inconvinient Truth. The Future of Food. Beyond Organic. Go Further! What the Bleep. Who Killed The Electric Car? Breakthrough. Fast Food Nation. The Witness. In Pursuit of Happyness. Igniting a Revolution. The US vs. John Lennon. Juno. Raw for Life.

Television:

Living with Ed, CSI, Law and Order, No Reservations, NGC State of the Planet, I love the National Geographic Channel, History Channel, Biography Channel, Food Network, Animal Planet, G Living Network and Current TV. Anything related to eco, green, sustainable lifestyles

Books:

Anything about Psychology or Sociology. Harvest for Hope. Raw Food, Real Word. No More Prisons. Bomb the Suburbs. Teenage Liberation Handbook. An Inconvenient Truth. The Omnivores Dilemma. Kitchen Confidential. Long Road to a Tomato. Legacy of Luna. Fields of Plenty. The Motorcycle Diaries. Raw Food, Real World. The Buddha in You Rearview Mirror. The World Without Us.

Heroes:

First and foremost My MOM! And then there are not the heroes per se, but the people I have great respect for...Michael Pollen, Jane Goodall, Al Gore, Michael Ableman, Tony & Maureen Wheeler, Julia Hill, David Wolfe, Thomas Keller.

My Blog

A lesson in mathematics

The true cost of war as of Oct 28th 2007...US deaths: 3,839US wounded: 37,659US suicide: 128Iraqi Civilian deaths: 54,771Iraqi insurgent deaths: 9,754yeah, that means that over 64,000 Iaqi's were kill...
Posted by Fully Alive!!! on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:32:00 PST

The Shaolin Monk slaps water...

And a story of a Shaolin Monk...He went to Tibet to train with the masters of Shaolin. The first thing they did was to give him a bucket filled to the brim with water and told him, "Slap the water wit...
Posted by Fully Alive!!! on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:49:00 PST

The answer...in a far away land, perhaps?

There is a place in this world of consumption where the government actually pays cattle ranchers to plant trees on their land rather than raise more cattle to make ends meet. A place where the rainfor...
Posted by Fully Alive!!! on Mon, 21 May 2007 06:24:00 PST

Dear Rae...

Hey goofball!!! Well, god, where do I start? You always tried to get me to come back to Chicago to visit, and I did. Just not how I wanted too. I never had any brothers or sisters, but I found that in...
Posted by Fully Alive!!! on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:06:00 PST

Che-Ka-Ka

Actually Che-Ka-Ka ended up sucking, so we moved our campsite over to Kyen which was fucking awesome. There is something relaxing about camping, swimming, and hanging out with good friends. Leaving th...
Posted by Fully Alive!!! on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:43:00 PST

Love Letters in Crayon - Again

I posted this like a year ago. I have been thinking alot about it lately so I figured I would post it again. It is a song that means alot to me. I miss the pillow and the colored paper. Such tiny thin...
Posted by Fully Alive!!! on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:14:00 PST

Poetic Tragedy

The cup is not half empty as pessimists say As far as he's sees, nothing's left in the cup A whole cup full of nothing for him to indulge Since the voice of ambition has long since been shut up ...
Posted by Fully Alive!!! on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:37:00 PST

Oh Captain, my Captain...

More that anything in the world right now, I want to go to Tibet and join a commune as a buddist monk. Give up all worldly things, and live on rice and green tea. I dream of a world built on sustai...
Posted by Fully Alive!!! on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:10:00 PST

Lover, you should have come...

Looking out the door I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners Parading in a wake of sad relations As their shoes fill up with water And maybe I'm too young To keep good love from going wro...
Posted by Fully Alive!!! on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:59:00 PST

Walk Away

Oh no- here comes that sun again. And that means another day without you my friend. And it hurts me to look into the mirror at myself. And it hurts even more to have to be with somebody else. ...
Posted by Fully Alive!!! on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:05:00 PST