This is what I believe:oh yeah, and this was soo written from me to you; you know who you are, and now, finally, I do too::
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and more I've learned:"The Desire for and the Pursuit of Learning is the Antidote to Despair."
Lewis Lapham
"The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget." - Arundhati Roy
________________________________________________This is some of what I've learned; what I know:All Things Irish, People, Eastern Philosophy, Buddhism,
Hinduism, dharma,pleasure, Music, Music, Music, Books, HISTORY,Reading, Writing,FOOTBALL!!!, Cars, Blogs, Dogs, Photography, Art;And Regarding that: My current pic is by a fabulous artist by the name of DUANE KIRBY JENSEN. He has a page on My Space. You should DEFINITLY go there & scope it out. He is brilliant, his poetry is amazing, and he is kind.
Moving on : Movies, Internet, Politics, Foreign Affairs,science, Environment, meteorology, space, never stopping learning....The following was sent to me by a lovely person here on My Space( Display Name : Suzette)....It sums up what I believe;"Our own successes, to be real, must contribute to the success of others."--Eleanor Roosevelt--"Integrity means we are committed to matching words, feelings, thoughts, and actions so that we live with congruence and without duplicity. We are authentic. We then have no desires other than what we appear to have. We have no desire to deceive. We are without malice. We are without guile. We do not feign appearances or affectations in an attempt or with a desire to deceive, take advantage of, manipulate, or control. The greater our integrity, the greater our power. We demonstrate the trustworthiness that stems from both character--what we are--and competence--what we can do and are likely to do."--Blaine Lee, The Power Principle: Influence with Honor--
Thich Nhat Hanh , Deepak Chopra, George Clooney, Kanye West, Chantal Kreviasuk, Fiona Apple, Mother Theresa, Lucifer, Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Shirley Manson, Buddha, Carlos Santana, Kofi Anan, Lisa Brown, Bob Dylan, John Lennon,Al Franken, Joe Conason,George Harrison, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, The Dalai Lama,Joseph Campbell, Bono, St. Francis, St. Augustine, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,Edwin McCain, John McCain, KebMo,Nikka Costa, Joe Strummer, Johnny Lang, Charles Parker, Sara Vaughan, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Sanger,Barack Obama , Michaelangelo, Pope John the 23rd, Howard Stern, Bill Moyers, Frederick Douglass, Leo Tolstoy, Lenin, Dostyevsky, Bernard Malamud, Steinbeck, John Jakes, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Jay, Peter Matthiessan, Tim Pat Coogan, John LeCarre, Eric Alterman, Kermit the Frog, Bob Marley, John Toland, Alexandra Ritchie, Michael Collins, Evita, Thomas Merton,Dionne Farris, Richard Wright, Stokley Carmichel, Dee Brown, Chris Rock, Johnny Carson, Ringo Starr, Jon Stewart, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Kate Winslett, Einstein, Mark Twain, Emiril, Dizzy Gilespie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Bette Midler, Stan Getz, Fats Waller, Fats Domino, John Coltraine, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Branford Marsalis, Mahatma Ghandi, George Bernard Shaw, Emerson, Thoreau, Oscar Wilde, H. L. Mencken, Frederich Nietzsche, Lao Tzu, Cicero, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Thomas Madison, Dolly Madison, Abidigail Adams, Dave Barry, Paul Krugman, James Thurber, Voltaire ,Vivaldi, Mozart, Ovid, Euripides, Hellen Keller, Dr. Seuss,Eddie Izzard, Barack Obama Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Benjamin Franklin, Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood, Howlin Wolf, John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bonnie Raitt, C.S. Lewis, Anais Nin, Victor Hugo, Edith Wharton, Confucius, Mata Hari, Mae West, Sean Penn, Momet, Bonicio Del Toro, Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackson, Sean Penn, Russell Crowe, Eminem, John Cusack, Viggo Mortensen, Robert Downey Jr., Billy Bob Thornton, Lenny Kravitz, Samuel Jackson, Antonio Banderas, Sean Connnery, Kevin Spacey, Richard Gere, Ralph Fiennes, Susan Sarandan, Madonna, Pope John Paul The Third, Lama Surya Das, Christiane Amanpour , Walter Cronkite, Don Miguel Ruiz, Krishnamurti, Parmanahansa Yogananda, Ken Wilber, IceTea,Ted Koppel, Peter Jennings, Jonas Salk, , Thurgood Marshall, Steven Breyer, Ruth Ginsberg, Morris Dees, Paulo Cohelo, Steve Hagen, Jack Kornfield, Paramananda, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bruce Springstein, Jesus Christ, Ray Nagin, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Leon Uris, Rumi, Dante, Crazy Horse, Anwar Sadat, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Maya Angelou, Eric Weisel,Archbishop Tutu, Mandela, Don Juan DeMarco( oh yeah, been there done that...well some people NEVER learn), Tim Curry, Nathan Lane, Hedy Lamar, Carl Levin, Carolyn Striho,& so many more
This is dedicated to and about my eldest son:Heaven-Where True Love Goes
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This is dedicated to my son Nathan: It speaks for itself; He is strong, and Living His Dreams!:____________________________________________________
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And this is for my youngest; Aaron, as are all the songs ever written, but for now this will have to do.It unfortunately has no video, but the song is truly him; my son who is always trying so hard to be Superman and coming far closer to suceeding than he knows.
and to and for and about his sweet Melissa:
She Talks to Angels
Kill Bill, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Tombstone, The Last Samurai,Rock Horror Picture Show, The Corporation, Cabaret, ToraToraTora, Midway, The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke,Giant, National Velvet, The Silence of The Lambs,Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,Dead Man Walking, anything with Kevin Spacey or Johnny Depp and Kate Winslett, or Tim Robbins, or Paul Newman, or Sean Penn, Waking Ned Divine, Dogville, Cold Mountain, Glory, Gettysburg, Shawshank Redemption,Michael Collins, Cry Freedom, Edward Scissorhands, Finding Neverland,The Sorcerer, The Constant Gardner, Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, Black Dahlia, The Last King of Scotland, The Good Shepherd, The Bourne movies, Garden State, Rushmore :)***
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Football, Bill Moyer's Journal*, Countdown with Keith Obermann, Book TV, C-Span (yeah...I know) Frontline, Nova, National Geographic, BBC News, Animqal Planet, ...& oh yeah...my one mindless treat; Ghostwhisperer..I know...
The History Of Berlin The Heart of The Buddha, Eleven Minutes, Michael Collins..Pronoia, Peter Mathiessen's Trilogy, A Light in August, Catch 22, Anam Cara, Thich Nhat Hahn, Lewis Lapham, Joseph Campbell, Tom Wolfe, Carlos Castaneda, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Tim Pat Coogan, Alice Hoffman, Maeve Bienchy, Howard Zinn, John Toland, Don Miguel Ruiz, Eric Alterman, Martin Gilbert, William Faulkner, Gao Xingjian, Thomas Moore, James Clavell, John LeCarre, Emerson, Thoreau, Kirkegard, Egdar Allen Poe, Krishnamurti, Leon Uris, Ken Wilber, Paul Coehlo,..actually there are so many,it is kinda silly to list any...Lets just say after certain other pastimes, reading is my favorite thing.
So my heroes are : Anyone of those millions of persons that already have, are, and someday will; GET UP!! GO BEYOND!! LEARN!! LOVE!!MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!!!! (again; in no order)My Mama, Thich Nhat Hahn, Steven Biko, Phillip Berrigan,King Hussein of Jordan(the first) Mahatma Ghandi,Archbishop Tutu, Jana, Mike McHale, Shawn, Nate, Aaron, Nelson Mandella, Henry J. Offer, Joe McMillan, Martin Luther King Jr., Bill Cunningham, Abe Lincoln, Bono, Irshad Manji,Frederick Douglass, Mother Theresa, My Dad's (both of them), Malcolm X, Kofi Anan, I'm sure there are more but that's a pretty good list for starters