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About Me

Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains. Run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards." - Ed Abbey

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My Interests

Peace-making. Loving people. Reading about religion. Books. Church. Staring at my beautiful baby niece. Carrying Mary around like a baby. Talking about boys with Hailey. Chatting with Luke on the phone as if we don't live a mile away from each other. Leaving really obnoxious voice mails on my older siblings' answering machines. Laughing with my mama. Talking theology with my papa. Taking random pictures with Hilary. Imagining the world as a place of connectedness. Missing my girls.

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Aleson Tap, Captain Darby O'Bill & His Matees 3, Trustfund, Sean Bendickson, Andrea Sorum

Movies:

A Few Good Men, X-Men, Zoolander, Keeping the Faith, Legally Blonde, The Power of One, Fiddler on the Roof, 50 First Dates, The Big Lebowski, A River Runs Through It, Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time, Braveheart, The Newsies, Office Space, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Love Actually, Lord of the Rings 1 & 2 & 3, Center Stage, Prince of Egypt, Motorcycle Diaries, Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version AND the new one) I Heart Huckabees, The Guardian, Stranger Than Fiction, and so on and so forth...

Television:

I like to watch sports...that's about it.

Books:

I've read so many thousands of books - I can't possibly make a list of my favorites, so I'll just highlight one - "Awareness; the Perils and Opportunities of Reality," by Anthony de Mello. It's life-changing.

Heroes:

We're all the blanket...

My Blog

from now until whenever

Hello to my friends who keep in touch with me via myspace! I just wanted to let you all know where I'll be for the next few months. I leave tomorrow for a long road trip to California, Utah, and Flags...
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:11:00 PST

I'm moving to Mexico - and other traveling news

Hola mi amigos! I was so inspired by my recent trip to the border between Arizona and Mexico that I've decided to move down there to devote my energy to the cause. I will happily share my stories and ...
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:00:00 PST

I get paid to do nothing

Really, I get paid to sit around and play on myspace. For those of you who have made comments about my noble work - I am sorry to break down your illusions. I USED to do something that meant something...
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:20:00 PST

It's a beautiful day!

Well, right now it's a beautiful night, but the title of my blog is actually referring to last Friday. It wasn't so much that the weather was beautiful that day, but more that I was hanging out with t...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:22:00 PST

Death, decisions, and dismay!

My friend Judy died last Thursday night, and I attended her funeral today. It was a nice funeral, but it didn't help me understand that she was dead. I can't understand it. Of all the people I have kn...
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:00:00 PST

She's not my baby, but...

....I wish she was. Many people have asked me about the baby in my pictures. Her name is Anaiyah, and she is my "adopted" neice. Our families have adopted each other in spirit, and now Anaiyah is mine...
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:06:00 PST

late at night and the toilet's plugged

The first day I started work at this place - a home for mentally ill people - my boss told me that some of our clients had diseases I wanted to be careful of. Then she smiled. Was she joking? I'll nev...
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:01:00 PST

just keep going...and keep your friends close at heart

It's been a random couple of months. I graduated, got laid off from a job, became homeless, completely changed my mind about the future, and had my self-confidence ripped from me. This seems to be a c...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:07:00 PST